Tunde Olaniran is an artist based in Flint, MI, whose work spans the worlds of music, dance, film, literature and performance art. Their debut and sophomore albums led to critical praise from The New York Times, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NPR, The New Yorker and countless others. They have produced globally-impactful work in collaboration with many artists including Mona Haydar, adrienne maree brown, Nick Cave, Esperanza Spalding, and Yo-Yo Ma.

Olaniran is a 2017 Art Matters Fellow, 2019 United States Artist Fellow, 2020 University of Michigan Artist-in-Residence, 2025/2026 Interdisciplinary Fellow at The Royal Shakespeare Company, and 2026 USC-Annenberg Civic Media Fellow. Tunde’s work for PBS won a 2021 Regional Emmy. In 2022, they created an experimental short film/exhibition entitled Made A Universe as well as a companion performance installation entitled Everything Is a Portal, commissioned by Cranbrook Art Museum, with support from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

Olaniran helped create Flint’s first Artist-in-Residence program with UMS/UM-Flint and is the founder of Magic Wheel Creative, an agency offering creative ideation, collaborative consulting, and comprehensive production management across the creative arts.