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2025 — 2026
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2025 — 2026
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, 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
Interview: Sam Bardaouil
Publisher: Hamburger Bahnhof / Silvana Editoriale Milano
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
Publisher: PACIFIC, New York / Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Designer: Elizabeth Karp-Evans
2024
Nigerian Pavilion, Palazzo Canal, Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
2024
Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Organized by Soyoung Lee
Organized by Soyoung Lee
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2023
Corvi-Mora, London, United Kingdom
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
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, USA
2022
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
2022
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco,
California, USA
2021 — 2022
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
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
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
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
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
Publisher: PACIFIC, New York
Designer: Elizabeth Karp-Evans
2020 — 2021
The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, 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
Interview: Lotte Johnson
Publisher: Barbican Centre, London
Designer: Zak Group
2020
Jean Francois Prat Prize, Sélection de l'édition 2020 Exhibition
Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris,
France
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
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary
Organized by Essence Harden + Leigh Raiford
Organized by Essence Harden + Leigh Raiford
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California, 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
2018 — 2019
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Matter of Fact
Text(s): Toyin Ojih Odutola, Leigh Raiford, Emily Kulhmann
Publisher: MoAD SF
Publisher: MoAD SF
The
Drawing Center, New York, USA
2018
Text(s): Elijah Burgher, Claire Gilman, Édouard Glissant, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Publisher: The Drawing Center, New York
Publisher: The Drawing Center, New York
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire, USA
2018
Toyin Ojih Odutola: Testing the Name
Organized by Storm Janse van Rensburg
Organized by Storm Janse van Rensburg
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of
Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Museum of Art São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil
Toyin Ojih Odutola: Scenes of Exchange
12th Manifesta Biennial, Orto Botanico di Palermo, Italy
Orientation: The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial
Created by Claudia Rankine
Organized by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels
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
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
Interview: Claudia Rankine
Publisher: Anteism, Montréal, Canada
Designer: Frédérique Gagnon
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2017 — 2018
Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined
Organized by Rujeko Hockley + Melinda Lang
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
Political Discourse
University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2016 — 2017
A Matter of Fact: Toyin Ojih Odutola
Organized by Emily Kuhlmann
Organized by Emily Kuhlmann
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco,
California, USA
2016
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2016
Stark Imagery: The Male Nude in Art
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles,
California, USA
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
Black Eye, Curated by Nicola Vassell
Concept NV, New York, USA
2014
southXeast: Southeastern Contemporary Art
Florida Atlantic University, School of the Arts, Boca Raton, Florida, 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
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
Seven Sisters
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2013 —
Based
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2012
MFA in Painting + Drawing
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, 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
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