@tobishinobi

@tobishinobi

VISUAL ARTISTPHOTOGRAPHERCREATIVE STRATEGIST

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Tobi “Tobi Shinobi” Shonibare is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and creative strategist based between London and Chicago. His practice spans fine-art photography, installation, video, and brand strategy, with recurring themes of symmetry, perspective, balance, and authorship running through the work. He is the founder of Studio SH_SH, an immersive creative space in Chicago, and is pursuing his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His photobook Equilibrium is stocked at MCA Chicago, and his work has been exhibited in London, Madrid, Chicago, Times Square, Brazil, and Art Basel Miami, with a permanent placement at Grand Valley State University. He serves on the Museum Council of the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Board of Directors at Filter Photo. As a Creative Strategist at TikTok and an independent consultant, he has shaped campaigns for Nike, Adidas, and Adobe, including Nike’s “Seen It All” 50th Anniversary campaign and the award-winning Gram-Atically Correct AR project featured in Times Square. He is a former Sony Global Imaging Ambassador and Adobe Lightroom Ambassador.

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