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Odili Donald Odita

(Nigerian, born 1966)

Odili Donald Odita

Black on Blue, 2022

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Odili Donald Odita

Bliss (Purple, Blue, Red), 2022

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Odili Donald Odita

Deep Red, Deep Blue, Deep Purple, 2022

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Odili Donald Odita

Fire, 2022

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Odili Donald Odita

Net (Red and Blue on Yellow, Red and Yellow, Red and Blue), 2022

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Odili Donald Odita

Promise of Good Hope, 2022

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Odili Donald Odita

Smoke, 2022

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Odili Donald Odita

White on Red (Burning), 2022

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Biography

Timeline

1966: Born in Enugu, Nigeria
1988: B.F.A. (with Distinction) Ohio State University; Excellence in the Arts
1990: M.F.A., Bennington College, Vermont
1998: ART/OMI, International Artist Residency
: Lives and works in Philadelphia

Exhibitions

2015 - 2016: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections, Newark Museum, New Jersey
2015: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Odili Donald Odita: Third Degree of Separation, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century, University Art Galleries & The John Young Museum of Art, of Hawaii, Manoa
2014: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (solo)
Sound Vision: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2013: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
This, That, and the Other, Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street, New York (solo)
North by Northwest, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia
2012 - 2013: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2012-2013:
Never Underestimate a Monochrome, University of Iowa Museum of Art
2012: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
Heaven’s Gate, Savannah College of Art & Design Museum or Art (solo)
Magical Visions, University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark
African Abstraction, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Art Basel, Switzerland
2011 - 2012: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2011-2012:
Karmic Abstraction, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2011: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Building The Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
20 Years Thami Mnyele Foundation, CBK Zuidoost, Amersterdam
Geography of Somewhere, Brodie/Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, Curated by David Brodie
ARS 11, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2010 - 2011: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2010-2011:
The Global Africa Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York, Curated by Lowery Sims and Leslie King-Hammond
2010: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Perspectives 169: Odili Donald Odita, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (solo)
Body & Space, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (solo)
Wild is the Wind, Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Georgia, Curated by Laurie Ann Farrell
2009: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Television, Ulrich Project Series, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas (solo)
Up & Away (permanent installation), Butler Commons, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (solo)
Contemporary Art of Africa and the African Diaspora, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Poised, Solomon Projects, Atlanta
Strip/Stripe: a Project by Test, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2008 - 2009: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2008-2009:
Third Space, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (solo)
2008: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Double Edge, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
Artcrush, Jenny Jaskey Gallery, Philadelphia
Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
Summer 2008/9, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and Diaspora, The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2007 - 2008: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2007-2008:
Flow, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (solo)
Equalizer, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (solo)
2007: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Baroque-Ademia, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, New York
Post Painterly Abstraction, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, 52nd Venice Biennale in the Italian Pavilion, curated by Robert Storr
Summer 2007/8 Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
2006: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Fusion, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (solo)
Parallel Economies, Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta
-poiesis, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Afro-PoMo, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
The Beautiful Game, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn
Big Juicy Paintings and More: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, FL
Diaspora and the Desert, at the Heard Museum, Phoenix
Distant Relatives/Relative Distance, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town
New Order, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Ordering & Seduction, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Nederland 1, Museum Gouda, The Netherlands
Represent: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Studio Museum, New York
The Shape of Jazz, Clifford Chance Projects, New York
Synthetic Rhapsody: Florida in Miami, AR Contemporary Art, Milan
The Whole World is Rotten, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Luanda Triennale 2006; The Triennale of Luanda, Angola
2005: Odili Donald Odita Selected Exhibitions in 2005:
Paradise, Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Surface Charge, Virginia Commonwealth University Museum, Richmond
Round Leather Worlds, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Curated by Dorothea Strauss
A Warlike People: Victims or Perpetrators, Monorchid Gallery, Phoenix
Collectors Show and Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950–2005, Art Gallery of Ontario
Wall Paintings, Virginia Commonwealth University Museum

Public Collections

: Princeton University, Butler College
: New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
: Newark Museum, New Jersey
: Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
: Miami Art Museum, Florida
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
: George C. Young Federal Building and US Courthouse, Orlando, Florida
: New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
: Esra Stiles College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
: Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech, Virginia
: Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Kansas
: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
: Standard Bank Art Collection, Johannesburg
: Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
: American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

Odili Donald Odita

(Nigerian, born 1966)

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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