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2026

Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art

National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, USA

2025 — 2026

Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawings from Gray to Black

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

2025 — 2026

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA

2025 — 2026

The Time Is Always Now

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

2025 — 2026

Toyin Ojih Odutola: U22 — Adijatu Straße

Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

2025

Toyin Ojih Odutola: U22 — Adijatu Straße

Text(s): Leigh Raiford + Emily Finkelstein
Interview: Sam Bardaouil
Publisher: Hamburger Bahnhof / Silvana Editoriale Milano

2025

To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates

Leeds Art Gallery, United Kingdom

2025

A Year in Art: 2050

Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

2025

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Ilé Oriaku

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2025

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Ilé Oriaku (House of Abundance)

Text(s): Nelene Ojih Odutola, Josephine Oriaku Ojih, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Erin J. Gilbert, Mohamed Almusibli + Olamiju Fajemisin
Publisher: PACIFIC, New York / Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Designer: Elizabeth Karp-Evans

2025

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA

2024 — 2025

The Time Is Always Now

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

2024 — 2025

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection

High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2024 — 2025

What It Becomes

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

2024

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Ilé Oriaku
Organized by Mohamed Almusibli

Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

2024

Nigeria Imaginary, Biennale Arte 2024
Organized by Aindrea Emelife + MOWAA

Nigerian Pavilion, Palazzo Canal, Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy

2024

When We See Us

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

2024

Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Organized by Soyoung Lee

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

2024

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection

Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

2024

The Time Is Always Now

National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2024

A Superlative Palette

Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

2023 — 2024

The Struggle of Memory

PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany

2023

Solo Presentation

Tokyo Gendai, Yokohama, Japan

2023

Black American Portraits

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta Georgia, USA

2023

Sadie (Zadie Smith), 2018

National Portrait Gallery (reopening), London, United Kingdom

2023

Together

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

2023

Armina Howada Mussa, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Jennifer Packer, Jem Perucchini, Anika Roach, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Corvi-Mora, London, United Kingdom

2022 — 2023

Afro-Atlantic Histories

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California, USA

2022 — 2023

When We See Us

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

2022 - 2023

Portrait of a Nation

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA

2022 — 2023

New Work: Toyin Ojih Odutola, organized by Eungie Joo, in collaboration with Twin Walls Mural, Co.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA

2022

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Satellite

Text: Toyin Ojih Odutola
Publisher: RITE Editions / SFMoMA, San Francisco
Designer: Yeju Choi

2022

16th Biennale de Lyon

Lyon, France

2022

Shapeshifting: Transformations on Paper

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2022

Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami Collection

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, USA

2022

The Condition of Being Addressable

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

2022

Living Histories

Frick Madison, New York, USA

2022

Afro-Atlantic Histories

Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

2022

Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art

Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA

2022

Uncanny Interiors

Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, USA

2021 — 2022

Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA

2021 — 2022

Afro-Atlantic Histories

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, USA

2021 — 2022

Black American Portraits

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

2021

Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark

2021

Unexpected Surfaces

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2021

Plural Possibilities & The Female Body

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA

2021

PORTALS

Hellenic Parliament + ΝΕΟΝ, former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens, Greece

2021

Toyin Ojih Odutola: The UmuEze Amara Clan & The House of Obafemi

Text(s): Zadie Smith, Leigh Raiford, Osman Can Yerebakan, Amber Jamillah Musser, Rujeko Hockley, Melinda Lang + Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa, New York
Designer: Yeju Choi

2021

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

Editor(s): Tarana Burke + Brené Brown
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Cover: Toyin Ojih Odutola

2021

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, by Zora Neale Hurston

Publisher: Amistad / Harper Perennial Modern Classics / HarperCollins
Cover: Toyin Ojih Odutola

2021

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care if It’s True

Text(s): Toyin Ojih Odutola + Reginald Moore
Publisher: PACIFIC, New York
Designer: Elizabeth Karp-Evans

2020 — 2021

Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory

The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

2020 — 2021

Defying the Shadow

RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

2020 — 2021

i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times

ICA Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2020 — 2021

Breakfast Under the Tree

Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, United Kingdom

2020

Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory

Text(s): Toyin Ojih Odutola + Zadie Smith
Interview: Lotte Johnson
Publisher: Barbican Centre, London
Designer: Zak Group

2020

Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2020

Jean Francois Prat Prize, Sélection de l'édition 2020 Exhibition

Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris, France

2020

Nine Lives

The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA

2020

Duro Oluwo: Seeing Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

2019 — 2020

Nicolas Party: Pastel

The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

2019 — 2020

EMBODY

Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA

2019 — 2020

I Am...: Contemporary Women Artists of Africa

National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, USA

2019

Prospect

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California, USA

2019

Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2019

58th Biennale Arte, Palazzo Ca’Tron, IUAV University, Venice, Italy

2019

Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary
Organized by Essence Harden + Leigh Raiford

California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA

2019

Drawn Together Again

The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

2019

Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition of Shortlisted Artists

PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine

2019

Show Me as I Want to Be Seen

The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, USA

2019

Damn! The Defiant

Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, USA

2019

Art on Paper 2019: The 45th Exhibition

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

2019

Presence: Meditations on the Spelman College Collection

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2019

Inducted

National Academy of Design

2018 — 2019

Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Matter of Fact

Text(s): Toyin Ojih Odutola, Leigh Raiford, Emily Kulhmann
Publisher: MoAD SF

2018 — 2019

Pulse

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, USA

2018 — 2019

For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn

The Drawing Center, New York, USA

2018 — 2019

In This Imperfect Present Moment

Seattle Art Museum, Washington, USA

2018

For Opacity

Text(s): Elijah Burgher, Claire Gilman, Édouard Glissant, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Publisher: The Drawing Center, New York

2018

Toyin Ojih Odutola: When Legends Die

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2018

Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Firmament

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

2018

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Testing the Name
Organized by Storm Janse van Rensburg

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA

2018

Histórias Afro-Atlânticas (Afro-Atlantic Histories)

Museum of Art São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil

2018

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Scenes of Exchange

12th Manifesta Biennial, Orto Botanico di Palermo, Italy

2018

Orientation: The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial
Created by Claudia Rankine
Organized by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2018

The Racial Imaginary Institute: On Whiteness
Organized by: Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, Sara’o Bery, LeRonn P. Brooks, Steven Glavey, Cathy Park Hong, Casey Llewellyn, Claudia Rankine, Simon Wu + Monica Youn

The Kitchen, New York, USA

2018

Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Treatment

Text(s): William J. Simmons
Interview: Claudia Rankine
Publisher: Anteism, Montréal, Canada
Designer: Frédérique Gagnon

2018

Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2017 — 2018

Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined
Organized by Rujeko Hockley + Melinda Lang

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

2017

Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts

National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, USA

2017

Ethics of Depiction: Landscape, Still Life, Human

Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, USA

2017

Dialogues in Drawing

Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

2017

A Painting Today

Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2017

Vanishing Points

James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

2017

Political Discourse

University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2016 — 2017

A Matter of Fact: Toyin Ojih Odutola
Organized by Emily Kuhlmann

Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA

2016

Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2016

Material Issue

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

2016

Stark Imagery: The Male Nude in Art

William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

2016

Making Her Mark

Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

2016

Black: Color, Material, Concept

Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA

2015 — 2016

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Of Context and Without

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2015 — 2016

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art

Seattle Art Museum, Washington, USA

2015 — 2016

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

2015 — 2016

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art

Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

2015

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Untold Stories

Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2015

Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African American Women

Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA

2015

SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence

National Academy Museum of Art, New York, USA

2015

Status Quo

Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School, Kinderhook, New York, USA

2015

Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA

2015

Young, Gifted, and Black

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2014

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Like the Sea

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2014

Black Eye, Curated by Nicola Vassell

Concept NV, New York, USA

2014

I See You

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

2014

southXeast: Southeastern Contemporary Art

Florida Atlantic University, School of the Arts, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

2014

Mise En Scène

Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School, Kinderhook, New York, USA

2014

The Mosaic Project: Ojih Odutola & Panas

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

2013 — 2014

Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Constant Wrestler

Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

2013 — 2014

The Six Draughtsmen

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn, New York, USA

2013

Toyin Ojih Odutola: My Country Has No Name

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2013

Black Hair: Black Identity

Iona College Chapman Gallery, New Rochelle, New York, USA

2013

Singular Masses: An Examination of Racial Identity

Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

2013

The Moment for Ink, Curated by Abby Chen

Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, California, USA

2013

Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA

2013

Seven Sisters

Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

2013 —

Based

Brooklyn, New York, USA

2012 — 2013

Fore

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA

2012 — 2013

The Progress of Love

Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA

2012

Afro: Black Identity in America and Brazil

Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

2012

Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line

UB Art Galleries, University at Buffalo, New York, USA

2012

Toyin Ojih Odutola: Alphabet

Text: Toyin Ojih Odutola
MFA Thesis, 2nd edition

2012

MFA in Painting + Drawing

California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA

2011

Toyin Ojih Odutola: (MAPS)

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2011

The Black Portrait

Rush Gallery, New York, USA

2011

Frontrunners: The San Francisco Foundation 2011 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Awards Exhibition

SOMArts, San Francisco, California, USA

2011

Geoffrey Chadsey, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Artifacts from Nagaland, Curated by Claude Simard

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2011

Ouroboros: An Exhibition & Reading, Organized by Toyin Ojih Odutola + Nick Johnson

California College of the Arts Writer's Studio, San Francisco, USA

2011

Selections on View, Contemporary Galleries

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA

2008

BA in Studio Art + Communications

UAHuntsville, Alabama, USA

2008

A Colonized Mind

Univercity Center, UAHuntsville, Alabama, USA

2007

Yale University / Norfolk Summer Art Fellowship Student Exhibition

Norfolk, Connecticut, USA

1994 —

Raised

Tennessee Valley, Alabama, USA

1990

Migrated

Bay Area, California, USA

1985

Born

Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Osun State, Nigeria

©2026 Toyin Ojih Odutola

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