Abi Salami

Abi Salami is a self-taught painter based in Dallas, Texas, who was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work uses personal symbols to explore memory, mental health, and race, with a focus on destigmatizing mental illness in African communities. She spent almost a decade in corporate work before painting full-time. In 2021 she was a resident at Field Projects in Chelsea, New York, where she worked on a series about water as both necessary and dangerous.