Art Fact Friday #33 Toyin Ojih Odutola
- William Mandela Matthews
- Mar 15, 2024
- 2 min read
An artist widely recognized for drawings and works on paper using mixed media. This artists works explore the flexibility and potentiality of identity through story-telling. Using a process of layering on the pag. With the influences of African-American portraiture artists including Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden and Barkley L. Hendricks as well as comic books, Japanese manga, and anime.
A multitude of public collections hold the artist work including: Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,Birmingham Museum of Art, AL,Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland,Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington,Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire,Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts,Mississippi Museum of Art, Mississippi,Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom,New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana,Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania,Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey,RISD Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island,Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois,Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas,Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, Hawaii,National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Born July 11 1985 in Ile-Ife, Nigeria Toyin Ojih Odutola moved to Berkeley, California in 1990 to join her father, Dr. Jamiu Ade Odutola a college instructor. Later they moved to Huntsville, Alabama in 1994.In 2007, she participated in the Norfolk Summer Residency for Music & Art, through Yale University Connecticut. In 2008,Ojih Odutola earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art and Communications at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.Her first solo exhibition "(MAPS)" opened at Jack Shainman Gallery New York, 2011.Then she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from California College of the Arts,San Francisco in 2012. Later in 2012 Forbes named her in the "Art & Style" classification of its 30 notable individuals under 30.
"Untold Stories" a solo museum exhibition, at the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis,opened in 2015.This exhibition, changed her style through the addition of text and storytelling to her technique."A Matter of Fact,"displayed at the Museum of the African Diaspora, in San Francisco, 2016. Introducing a fresh aesthetic that she created in residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, in Sausalito, California. Juxtapoz Magazine featured her work on the cover in 2017, this marked the opening of her exhibit , "To Wander Determined," at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Also between 2017 and 18 she received the Lida A. Orzeck ’68 Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Barnard College, New York. In 2018, "Scenes of Exchange” was included in the Manifesta international biennial, in Palermo, Italy.
Ojih Oditola was a nominee for the Future Generation Art Prize ,2019, the exhibition began at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, Ukraine, eventually included in a the 58th Venice Biennale. The National Academy of Design inducted Ojih Odutola into the National Academicians Class of 2019.
In 2020, "A Countervailing Theory” opened at The Curve gallery at Barbican Centre, London, her first museum solo exhibition in the United Kingdom.
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