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Odili Donald Odita
NEWS: Odili Donald Odita inaugurated the Project Room at the Studio Museum in Harlem with a wall painting titled Equalizer, and has completed an expansive wall work, Flow, for the new Zaha Hadid-designed Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, on view until Fall 2008. His artistic/curatorial project, Paper Trails II: Passing Through Clouds is at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (8 May - 27 July). He has a solo exhibition at Michael Stevenson opening October 2008.

LATEST WORK

A Third Power on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)

EXHIBITIONS

Installation views, 52nd Venice Biennale (10 June - 21 November 2007)
Distant Relatives/Relative Distance (7 June - 5 August 2006)

PUBLICATIONS

Distant Relatives/Relative Distance

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1966 in Enugu, Nigeria, Odita has lived in the United States virtually all his life. Besides being an artist, he is also a critic who has written for publications such as Flash Art and NKA, and a professor who currently teaches painting at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. Recent exhibitions include the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); Ordering and Seduction at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2006); Parallel Economies at Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia (2006); the 2004 Dakar biennale; A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad at the Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis (2003); and Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti at the New Museum, New York (2003). He was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant for 2007. For more info see www.odilidonaldodita.com. Full CV