TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA

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 2026
National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, USA
 2025
Corvi-Mora, London, United Kingdom
 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
Leeds Art Gallery, United Kingdom
 2025
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 
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA
 2024 — 2025 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
 2024 — 2025 
High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 2024 — 2025 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
 2024 
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
 2024  
Nigeria Imaginary, Biennale Arte 2024 
Organized by Aindrea Emelife + MOWAA
Nigerian Pavilion, Palazzo Canal, Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
 2024
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
 2024
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
 2024
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
 2024 
National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
 2024 
Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
 2023—2024
PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany
 2023 
Tokyo Gendai, Yokohama, Japan
 2023 
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta Georgia, USA
 2023 
National Portrait Gallery (reopening), London, United Kingdom
 2023 
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
 2022—2023 
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California, USA
 2022—2023
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
 2022-2023
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
 2022—2023
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
Lyon, France
 2022
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
 2022
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, USA
 2022
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
 2022 
Frick Madison, New York, USA
 2022 
Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
 2022
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA
 2022 
Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, USA
 2021—2022
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
 2021—2022
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, USA
 2021—2022
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
 2021
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark
 2021 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
 2021 
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
 2021 
Hellenic Parliament + ΝΕΟΝ, former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens, Greece
 2021
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
Text(s): Toyin Ojih Odutola + Reginald Moore
Publisher: PACIFIC, New York
Designer: Elizabeth Karp-Evans
 2020—2021 
The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
 2020—2021 
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
 2020—2021 
ICA Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 2020—2021 
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 
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
 2020   
Jean Francois Prat Prize, Sélection de l'édition 2020 Exhibition
Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris, France
 2020 
The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 2020 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 2019—2020 
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
 2019—2020 
Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA
 2019—2020 
National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, USA
 2019 
Prospect
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California, USA
 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 
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
 2019 
PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
 2019 
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, USA
 2019  
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 
 2018—2019
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Matter of Fact
Text(s): Toyin Ojih Odutola, Leigh Raiford, Emily Kulhmann
Publisher: MoAD SF
 2018—2019 
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, USA
 2018—2019 
The Drawing Center, New York, USA
 2018—2019 
Seattle Art Museum, Washington, USA
 2018
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 
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
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
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 
Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, USA
 2017  
Dialogues in Drawing
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
 2017   
Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
 2017   
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  
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 2016 
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 
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
 2016 
Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
 2015—2016 
Toyin Ojih Odutola: Of Context and Without
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
 2015—2016 
Seattle Art Museum, Washington, USA
 2015—2016 
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 2015—2016 
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
 2015   
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
 2015
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
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  
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
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 
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
 2012—2013 
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA
 2012 
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
 2012   
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 
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





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