Alayo Akinkugbe is an independent writer and curator. She is the author of Reframing Blackness (published by #Merky Books in 2025) and the founder of A Black History of Art, a platform highlighting Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and the present day.
She is also the host of the A Shared Gaze podcast. Akinkugbe has worked with institutions and contributed to publications internationally, including serving on the advisory panel for African Artists: From 1882 to Now (Phaidon, 2021), and receiving a curatorial research grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change.
Her writing has appeared in publications such as AnOther Magazine, Dazed, Tate Etc. and The World of Interiors.