Tayo Rapoport is an artist and director based in London.

Grounded in the works of black cinema and the use of film as an expansion of oral history and archive, his practice intimately observes the intersections between community, healing, creativity and our interconnectivity with the natural and spiritual worlds.

Embedded at the core is the question: How can the the screen become a space that brings us together and creates human connection?

Recent commissions include the meditative art film Spirit Moves (V&A, 2021), which manifests as a visual tone poem rooted in Senegalese and Afro-Brazilian traditions to uplift the Black diaspora. Rose of Jericho (2021) is an immersive live performance in collaboration with Touching Bass and The White Cube, developed in response to ‘Ibrahim Mahama: Lazarus’, an exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey reviving the ecosystem of a disused silo space in Tamale, Ghana.

In 2016, Tayo co-founded CHILD studio - a creative studio operating at the intersection between art, music and politics - creating work for a wide range of clients and artists within the creative industry including iD, XL Recordings and NTS Radio.

Rapoport is currently working on a five-channel film and sound installation exploring the radical potential of b/Black British music to manifest reparative futures. Commissioned by the British Library for their upcoming exhibition ‘Beyond the Bassline: 500 years of Black British Music’.

For all enquiries: contact@tayorap.com

Awards:

CIRCA Prize (2024) shortlisted

Group Exhibitions:

Afrosonica - The Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève (MED) - Geneva (2025)
Beyond the Bassline - British Library - London (2024)
Finding Soul - London - (2018)

Screenings (2024):

Step Forward: Sonic Visions - Curated by Ben Swaby Selig
Le Guess Who Festival - Curated by Touching Bass
Picadily lights - CIRCA Prize
Blanc Gallery - Relations in time: Duets in film and performance Chicago
Los Angeles Film Forum - Experimentations: Imag[in]ing knowledge in film

Press:

AnOther Magazine
Timeout
Creative Review
Nowness
DJ mag
Art Plugged