ExhibitionsCUAG Centretown / Yomi Orimoloye: The Third Door
May 27, 2025 - April 30, 2026
Yomi Orimoloye, "The Third Door," 2025 (detail), courtesy of the artist.
Yomi Orimoloye is the inaugural artist at CUAG Centretown!
CUAG Centretown will annually feature a commissioned wall work by an artist in the Ottawa-Gatineau region.
In creating this site-responsive artwork, Orimoloye extends the threshold space outside the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre Main Hall with a garden-like landscape. The Third Door offers a portal that, as the artist writes, we are invited to “step through mentally as we prepare ourselves to enter, for whatever reason has brought us here.”
Working both digitally and on canvas, Orimoloye creates layered collage-like compositions engaging themes of transformation, selfhood and storytelling. His art practice is influenced by his ongoing inquiry into identity, his Nigerian heritage, and the diagrams, schematics and precision of his profession as an electrical engineer.
The Third Door highlights the vitality of gathering, and how spaces of community and the arts shape our sense of self. CUAG thanks Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre and the Carleton University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Curated by
Heather Anderson
Artists in the exhibition
Yomi Orimoloye
