Tunde Wey is a Nigerian immigrant artist, chef, and writer working at the intersection of food and social politics. He uses food and dining spaces as a medium to engage systems of exploitative power, particularly race, immigration, gentrification, and global capitalism, from the vantage point of the marginalized other.
Tunde’s work has been written about in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, and GQ. His own writing has been featured in the Boston Globe, Oxford American, CityLab, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a TIME 2019 Next Generation Leader and New York Times 16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America. Tunde is the spring/summer 2022 artist-in-residence at ALMA|LEWIS, an experimental, contemporary art platform dedicated to Black culture, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.