BIOGRAPHY

Born: Enugu, Nigeria, 1966
Resides: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Education: Bennington College (M.F.A., 1990);
Ohio State University (B.F.A., 1988)
Website: www.odilidonaldodita.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
“Equalizer” (site-specific mural), Studio Museum in Harlem, Project Space, New York.
“Flow” (site-specific mural), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.

2006
“Fusion,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

2004
“Notes From Paradise,” Florence Lynch Gallery, New York.
“The Third Eye,” Haunch of Venison (Galerie Judin Belot), Zurich, Switzerland. Traveled. Catalogue.

2003
“RESISTANCE,” Matrix Art Project, Brussels, Belgium.

2002
Art Statements with Florence Lynch Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida.
“Interlude,” Galerie Wintergarten, Vienna, Austria.
“New Works,” Miami Art Museum, Florida.

2001
“LIFE,” Riva Gallery, New York.
“Paintings & Drawings,” Florence Lynch Gallery, New York.

2000
“Transfers/Odyssey,” Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

1999
“Color Theory,” Florence Lynch Gallery, New York.
“The Invisible Empire,” Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
“Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.

2007
“Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art & the Diaspora,” Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
“Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind,” 52nd Venice Biennale.

2006
“Distant Relatives/Relative Distance,” Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. Traveled. Catalogue.
“Ordering & Seduction,” Haus Konstruktive, Zurich, Switzerland.

2005
“Surface Charge,” Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Catalogue.
“Round Leather Worlds”/“Rundlederwelten,” Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin.
“The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950–2005,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

2004
Dak’Art 2004: 6th Dakar Biennial (Diaspora section), Dakar, Senegal.

2003
“Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary African Abroad,” Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis.
Traveled. Catalogue.
“Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,” New Museum, New York.
Traveling. Catalogue.
“After Matisse & Picasso,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York.

2002
“Painting As Paradox,” Artists Space, New York.

2001
“Material and Matter,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

2000
“Five Continents & One City,” 3rd International Salon of Painting (Africa Section), Museum of Mexico City.

1997
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa..

Selected Bibliography

2007
Oguibe, Olu. “Looking Back: Emerging Artists,” Frieze (January–February).

2005
Maine, Stephen. “Odili Donald Odita at Florence Lynch,” Art in America (June/July).
Schwendener, Martha. “Goings On About Town,” New Yorker (January 3).

2004
Oguibe, Olu. “Artists on Artists: Odili Donald Odita,” BOMB Magazine (Fall).
Carrier, David. “A Fiction of Authenticity,” Artforum (March).
Cooper, Ivy. “A Fiction of Authenticity,” Art Papers (January–February).

2003
Lloyd, Ann Wilson. “Two Different Museums Meet in St. Louis,” The New York Times (October 12).
Pollack, Barbara. “The Afrobeat Generation,” Village Voice (July 23).
Cotter, Holland. “King of Music (and of All He Surveyed),” The New York Times (July 18).

2002
Weinberg, Michelle. “Odili Donald Odita/Miami Art Museum,” Tema Celeste (November–December).
Moreno, Gean. “Odili Donald Odita/Miami Art Museum,” Flash Art International (October).
Murray, Derek. “New York Scene,” International Review of African American Art (May).
Volk, Gregory. “Odili Donald Odita at Florence Lynch and Riva,” Art in America (May).

2001
Cotter, Holland. “Odili Donald Odita,” The New York Times (November 16).