Toyin Ojih Odutola (Nigerian/American, b. 1985), The Uncertainty


A New Grammar for Blackness

T oyin Ojih Odutola was born in Ife, Nigeria, in 1985. She moved to the US aged five, first to Berkeley, California, then to Huntsville, Alabama, where her father worked as a professor and her.


New Drawings by Toyin Ojih Odutola Pair Powerful Portraits with

OJIH ODUTOLA, TOYIN BORN: ILE-IFE, NIGERIA RAISED: CALIFORNIA / ALABAMA, USA BASED: NEW YORK, USA JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY ︎︎︎ 513 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 Tel. +1 212 645 1701 Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels joeonna @ jackshainman.com CORVI-MORA GALLERY ︎︎︎ 1a Kempsford Road London, SE11 4NU Tel. +44 020 7840 9111 Tommaso Corvi-Mora


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This fall, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present "A Countervailing Theory," a major exhibition of work by Toyin Ojih Odutola (born Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1985), Nov. 19-April 3, 2022. The exhibition features a recent body of work in the form of a monumental cycle of 40 large-scale, monochromatic drawings that chronicle a myth conceived by the artist. The.


Reimagining Black Experience in the Radical Drawings of Toyin Ojih

Toyin Ojih Odutola (above) "flips the script in every aspect," she says of her 40 charcoal and pastel drawings depicting a story about a strong race of women, called the Eshu, who rule over.


Toyin Ojih Odutola ‘To Wander Determined’ at Whitney Museum

Months later I discovered the artist Toyin Ojih Odutola. Procrastinating on Instagram, as one does, I stumbled upon "Untitled (Dotun. Enugu, Nigeria)." The work, made in 2012, features the.


Made Famous on 'Empire,' Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola's Opulent Portraits

Toyin Ojih Odutola was born in Nigeria but moved to the U.S. as a child. When her classmates hesitated to interact with her "otherness," Toyin turned to drawing as an alternate world in which.


Testing the Name SCAD Museum of Art

Best known for drawings that use distinctively layered mark-making to highlight topographies of skin and surface, Toyin Ojih Odutola is a storyteller who often presents her work in sprawling narrative cycles.


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Toyin Ojih Odutola (b.1985 in Ile-Ife, Nigeria; lives and works in New York, NY) is best known for her multimedia drawings and works on paper, which explore the malleability of identity and the possibilities in visual story-telling.Interested in the topography of skin, Ojih Odutola has a distinctive style of mark-making using only basic drawing materials, such as ballpoint pens, pencils.


Toyin Ojih Odutola The Frick Collection

The artist Toyin Ojih Odutola in her studio in Brooklyn, N.Y. Aundre Larrow By Lovia Gyarkye Nov. 19, 2021 Conversations with the Nigerian American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola tend to mirror the.


Toyin Ojih Odutola in San Francisco

(Toyin Ojih Odutola) Comment Visiting the Hirshhorn exhibition " Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory " is an intense, multisensory and even otherworldly experience — and, unlike some.


Toyin Ojih Odutola (Nigerian, b. 1985), A Misunderstanding with the

About the Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola (b. Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1985) is known for works on paper that explore the malleability of identity and possibilities in visual storytelling.


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Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory Nov 19, 2021-Apr 03, 2022 The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents A Countervailing Theory, a major exhibition of work by Toyin Ojih Odutola (born Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1985), Nov. 19-April 3, 2022.


Toyin Ojih Odutola ‘To Wander Determined’ at Whitney Museum

Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) is a Nigerian-American contemporary visual artist known for her vivid multimedia drawings and works on paper. [1] Her unique style of complex mark-making and lavish compositions rethink the category and traditions of portraiture and storytelling. [2]


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24 Artworks: Toyin Ojih Odutola Acceptance Protocol, 2021-2022 Jack Shainman Gallery Price on request Toyin Ojih Odutola Benjamin, 2012-2013 Phillips Bidding closed Toyin Ojih Odutola The Firm, 2017-2018 Future Generation Art Prize Permanent collection Toyin Ojih Odutola


Toyin Ojih Odutola (b.1985) , Manifesto Christie's

"Toyin Ojih Odutola—draftswoman, writer, keen observer, creator of worlds—was born in Ife, Nigeria, in 1985. An exemplar of what she has described as the 'wandering immigrant' tradition, she has been itinerant, a determined wanderer, in her locations and interests for much of her life."


Toyin Ojih Odutola Gives Shape to the Migrant Experience of Otherness

Toyin Ojih Odutola—draftswoman, writer, keen observer, creator of worlds—was born in Ife, Nigeria, in 1985. An exemplar of what she has described as the "wandering immigrant" tradition, she has been itinerant, a determined wanderer, in her locations and interests for much of her life.

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