Current Exhibitions
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark, 2 March — 30 May 2021
Defying the Shadow, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, 21 November 2020 — 6 June 2021
i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times, ICA Boston, Massachusetts, 18 November 2020 — 23 May 2021
UBUNTU: Harry David Art Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Greece, 22 Sepetember —18 March 2021
Breakfast Under the Tree, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, United Kingdom
Defying the Shadow, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, 21 November 2020 — 6 June 2021
i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times, ICA Boston, Massachusetts, 18 November 2020 — 23 May 2021
UBUNTU: Harry David Art Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Greece, 22 Sepetember —18 March 2021
Breakfast Under the Tree, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, United Kingdom
Projects
2020
Kenturah Davis, Conversation with Toyin Ojih Odutola, 24 July.
Jack Shainman Gallery | States of Being, Reading Room: Toyin Ojih Odutola on Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, 26 October.
Kenturah Davis, Conversation with Toyin Ojih Odutola, 24 July.
Jack Shainman Gallery | States of Being, Reading Room: Toyin Ojih Odutola on Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, 26 October.
Surveys & Catalogs
2021
Phaidon Editors, Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing, (Phaidon Press)
Phil Sanders, Prints and Their Makers, (Princeton Architectural Press)
Sarah Urist Green, You Are An Artist: Assignments To Spark Creation, (Penguin Random House)
2019
Alison Gingeras, Unrealism: New Figurative Painting, (Rizzoli)
2018
Claire Gilman, For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn,(The Drawing Center)
Shannon Fitzgerald, Katherine Navarro, Dr. Robert Feldman, Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art, (Mennello Museum of Art)
2016
Trent Morse, Ballpoint Art, 2016 (Laurence King Publishing)
Phaidon Editors, Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing, (Phaidon Press)
2020
Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham, Black Futures, (Penguin Random House)Phil Sanders, Prints and Their Makers, (Princeton Architectural Press)
Sarah Urist Green, You Are An Artist: Assignments To Spark Creation, (Penguin Random House)
2019
Alison Gingeras, Unrealism: New Figurative Painting, (Rizzoli)
2018
Claire Gilman, For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn,(The Drawing Center)
Shannon Fitzgerald, Katherine Navarro, Dr. Robert Feldman, Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art, (Mennello Museum of Art)
2016
Trent Morse, Ballpoint Art, 2016 (Laurence King Publishing)
Covers & Commissions
2021
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience, (Penguin Random House)Kayo Chingonyi, A Blood Condition, (Penguin Random House)
2020
Bernardine Evaristo, Garota, mulher, outras (Girl, Woman, Other), (Companhia das Letras, Brazil)Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse:Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, (HarperCollins Publishers)
Helon Habila, Travelers, (W. W. Norton & Company)
TIME Magazine, 100 Women of the Year, March.
Shane McCrae, Sometimes I Never Suffered, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Peter Adjaye & Toyin Ojih Odutola, Ceremonies Within, (Vinyl Factory)
2019
Jennifer C. Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality, 2019 (Duke University Press)2018
George S. Schuyler, Black No More, (Penguin Classics)The New York Times Magazine, The Lives They Lived, December.
2017
Samiya Bashir, Field Theories, (Nightboat Books)Paul C Taylor, Linda Martín Alcoff, Luvell Anderson, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race, (Routledge Philosophy Companions)
Recent Press
2021
Flash Art, Toyin Ojih Odutola, A Countervailing Theory, Barbican Centre / London by Kareem Reid.
Flash Art, Toyin Ojih Odutola, A Countervailing Theory, Barbican Centre / London by Kareem Reid.
2020
ARTE, Toyin Ojih Odutola, le noir et la peau, by Virginie Apiou.
Barbican Centre, Nothing Concrete Podcast: In Conversation: Toyin Ojih Odutola and Erin J. Gilbert.
Artforum, Toyin Ojih Odutola at Jack Shainman Gallery.
Barbican Centre, A narrated walk through Toyin Ojih Odutola’s A Countervailing Theory.
The Great Women Artists Podcast with Katy Hessel, Toyin Ojih Odutola.
TalkArt Podcast, Toyin Ojih Odutola. ArtReview, Unspooling Stories: The Drawings of Toyin Ojih Odutola, by Rahel Aima.
Frieze, Top 10 Shows in the UK and Ireland of 2020, by Mimi Chu.
Whitewall, Toyin Ojih Odutola Proposes a Countervailing Theory, by Katy Donoghue.
Artforum, The Artists’ Artists, Jo Baer on Toyin Ojih Odutola.
Artsy, The Most Influential Artists of 2020: Toyin Ojih Odutola, by Allyssia Alleyne.
Apollo Magazine, Apollo Awards 2020: Artist of the Year, Toyin Ojih Odutola.
University of Alabama in Huntsville, Toyin Ojih Odutola wins 2020 Alumni of Achievement award for Outstanding Young Alumni, by Russ Nelson.
PORTER, 11 Incredible Women on the lessons they learned in 2020.
Connaissance des Arts, L’artiste nigérienne Toyin Ojih Odutola reçoit le prix Jean-François Prat 2020, by Iseult Cahen-Patron.
The New York Times, 2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now: Toyin Ojih Odutola, by Jason Farago.
Harper’s Bazaar, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Yaa Gyasi Talk Making Art and Opening Doors.
The Quietus, Utopias Are Traps: Toyin Ojih Odutola On A Countervailing Theory, by Amah-Rose Abrams.
The Brooklyn Rail, Toyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True, by Amber Jamilla Musser.
Artforum, Critics’ Picks: New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola, by Cassie Packard.
Apollo Magazine, 40 Under 40 Africa: Toyin Ojih Odutola.
Harper’s Bazaar, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Yaa Gyasi Talk Making Art and Opening Doors.
The Quietus, Utopias Are Traps: Toyin Ojih Odutola On A Countervailing Theory, by Amah-Rose Abrams.
The Brooklyn Rail, Toyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True, by Amber Jamilla Musser.
Artforum, Critics’ Picks: New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola, by Cassie Packard.
Apollo Magazine, 40 Under 40 Africa: Toyin Ojih Odutola.
Artsy, The Enigmatic Stories beneath Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Lush Drawings, by Gabrielle Bruney.
WePresent, Toyin Ojih Odutola: A picture can tell you a lot if you let it, by Allyssia Alleyne.
WePresent, Toyin Ojih Odutola: A picture can tell you a lot if you let it, by Allyssia Alleyne.
The New Yorker, Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Visions of Power, by Zadie Smith.
Frieze, Toyin Ojih Odutola Imagines a Prehistoric Civilization Where Women Rule, by Rianna Jade Parker.
The Art Newspaper, Queer, Black, out of this world: Toyin Ojih Odutola's drawings flip power structures in Barbican show, by Louisa Buck.
iNews, Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory, Barbican, review: a magnificent achievement, by Hettie Judah.
The Guardian | Observer, Interview, Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola: 'I’m interested in how power dynamics play out', by Killian Fox.
T Magazine, The T List: A New Show By the Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, by Rachel May.
GRANTA, True Story, by Yaa Gyasi.
HyperAllergic, Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Skillfully Flips the Script of Art History, by Naomi Polonsky.
The Art Newspaper, Queer, Black, out of this world: Toyin Ojih Odutola's drawings flip power structures in Barbican show, by Louisa Buck.
iNews, Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory, Barbican, review: a magnificent achievement, by Hettie Judah.
The Guardian | Observer, Interview, Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola: 'I’m interested in how power dynamics play out', by Killian Fox.
T Magazine, The T List: A New Show By the Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, by Rachel May.
GRANTA, True Story, by Yaa Gyasi.
HyperAllergic, Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Skillfully Flips the Script of Art History, by Naomi Polonsky.
National Portrait Gallery, An interview with Zadie Smith and Toyin Ojih Odutola by Katy Hessel.
them, “Embrace the Brick, Honey:” Miss Major, Bill T. Jones and More on What Queer Utopia Means to Them, by Wren Sanders.
them, “Embrace the Brick, Honey:” Miss Major, Bill T. Jones and More on What Queer Utopia Means to Them, by Wren Sanders.
Barbican Centre, The power of storytelling: Toyin Ojih Odutola.
Something Curated, Interview: Toyin Ojih Odutola On Her New Exhibition At Barbican Art Gallery, by Keshav Anand.
CNN Style, 'Skin is a terrain': Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola on drawing intricate portraits of black life, by Jacqui Palumbo.
Something Curated, Interview: Toyin Ojih Odutola On Her New Exhibition At Barbican Art Gallery, by Keshav Anand.
CNN Style, 'Skin is a terrain': Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola on drawing intricate portraits of black life, by Jacqui Palumbo.
Culture Type, New Drawings by Toyin Ojih Odutola Pair Powerful Portraits with Invented Stories, by Victoria L. Valentine.
The New Yorker | Vulture, Art: See Toyin Ojih Odutola, by Jerry Satlz.
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