On View
︎︎︎ Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, Frick Madison, New York, New York, Apr — Aug 2022
︎︎︎ Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 19 Nov 2021 — 3 Apr 2022
︎︎︎ Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 7 Nov 2021 — 17 Apr 2022
︎︎︎ Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper, CSS BARD, Hessel Museum of Art,Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, 26 Jun — 17 Oct 2021
︎︎︎ PORTALS, Organized by NEON, Hellenic Parliament Library & Printing House, Athens, Greece, 11 Jun — 31 Dec 2021
︎︎︎ Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 19 Nov 2021 — 3 Apr 2022
︎︎︎ Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 7 Nov 2021 — 17 Apr 2022
︎︎︎ Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper, CSS BARD, Hessel Museum of Art,Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, 26 Jun — 17 Oct 2021
︎︎︎ PORTALS, Organized by NEON, Hellenic Parliament Library & Printing House, Athens, Greece, 11 Jun — 31 Dec 2021
Books
Projects
Editorial
As of 2021, Ojih Odutola contributes to her «Missed Connections» artist column in Elephant Magazine. Each issue features a new scene constructed by the artist.
Collaborations
In developing A Countervailing Theory, Ojih Odutola collaborated with composer, Peter Adjaye. For ACT’s run in Barbican Centre, Kunsten Aalborg, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Adjaye created Ceremonies Within (2020), an immersive soundscape to accompany the work in the exhibition.
Info
Toyin Ojih Odutola (b. 1985, Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria) is a visual artist and columnist based in New York. She is best known for her ecclectic, multimedia drawings made with pen ink, pencil, charcoal and pastel, often presented in large
scale series, or “chapters.” Since 2011, themes in her work have explored the malleability of identity, meaning and
power through portraiture and visual story-telling.
She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at national and international institutions, including the Barbican Centre, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Whitney Museum of American Art, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Drawing Center, Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the Menil Collection, as well as the 12th Manifesta Biennial in Palermo, Italy.
Ojih Odutola earned her BA from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In 2016, she undertook a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts; she was the Lida A. Orzeck ‘68 Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Barnard College from 2017—2018; and in 2019, inducted into the National Academy of Design.
Public collections of her artworks are held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, among others.
︎︎︎ PDF of CV
She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at national and international institutions, including the Barbican Centre, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Whitney Museum of American Art, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Drawing Center, Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the Menil Collection, as well as the 12th Manifesta Biennial in Palermo, Italy.
Ojih Odutola earned her BA from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In 2016, she undertook a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts; she was the Lida A. Orzeck ‘68 Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Barnard College from 2017—2018; and in 2019, inducted into the National Academy of Design.
Public collections of her artworks are held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, among others.
︎︎︎ PDF of CV
Articles & Media
Elephant Magazine ︎︎︎
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso ︎︎︎
The White Review, by Orit Gat ︎︎︎
Kunsten.nu, by Stinna Toft ︎︎︎
ArtReview, by Rahel Aima ︎︎︎
The Brooklyn Rail, by Amber Jamilla Musser ︎︎︎
Jack Shainman Gallery | States of Being, by Ojih Odutola ︎︎︎
The New York Times, by Jason Farago ︎︎︎
The Art Newspaper, by Louisa Buck ︎︎︎
CNN Style, by Jaqui Palumbo ︎︎︎
Artforum, by Cassie Packard ︎︎︎
Granta, by Yaa Gyasi ︎︎︎
Arte.tv, by Virginie Apiou ︎︎︎
iNews, by Hettie Judah ︎︎︎
The Quietus, by Amah-Rose Abrams ︎︎︎
Artforum, by Jo Baer ︎︎︎
Flash Art, by Kareem Reid︎︎︎
Frieze, by Rianna Jade Parker ︎︎︎
HyperAllergic, by Naomi Polonsky ︎︎︎
The New Yorker, by Zadie Smith ︎︎︎
Apollo Magazine, by Samuel Reilly ︎︎︎
National Portrait Gallery, by Katy Hessel ︎︎︎
Barbican Centre, by Ojih Odutola ︎︎︎
Conversation with Erin J. Gilbert ︎︎︎
Conversation with Kenturah Davis ︎︎︎
them, by Wren Sanders ︎︎︎
Artforum, by Brian J. Green ︎︎︎
Artsy, by Gabrielle Bruney︎︎︎
Something Curated, by Keshav Anand ︎︎︎
Great Women Artists with Katy Hessel ︎︎︎
Talk Art with Russell Tovey & Robert Diament ︎︎︎
WePresent, by Allyssia Alleyne ︎︎︎
The Guardian | Observer, by Killian Fox ︎︎︎
PBS Brief But Spectacular ︎︎︎
The New York Times, by Jason Farago ︎︎︎ Elephant Magazine, by Charlotte Jansen ︎︎︎
Juxtapoz Magazine, by Kristin Farr ︎︎︎
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Select photographs from slideshow courtesy of Kunsten Museum Aalborg, Barbican Centre, Whitney Museum of American Art, SCAD Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Museum of the African Diaspora, Pinchuk Art Centre & Jack Shainman Gallery.
Select photographs from slideshow courtesy of Kunsten Museum Aalborg, Barbican Centre, Whitney Museum of American Art, SCAD Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Museum of the African Diaspora, Pinchuk Art Centre & Jack Shainman Gallery.