Odili Donald Odita

NEWS: Odili Donald Odita's Third Space, a mural commissioned for the Ramp Project, can be viewed at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, until December 2009. He has shows in the Project Series at the Ulrich Museum at Wichita State University (17 January - 26 April), and at the Velan Center for Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy (opening May 2009).

RECENT EXHIBITION

Double Edge (16 October - 22 November 2008)

Serrated Venice Eternal

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

A Third Power on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
Give Me Shelter, 52nd Venice Biennale (10 June - 21 November 2007)
Distant Relatives/Relative Distance (7 June - 5 August 2006)

PUBLICATIONS

Double Edge
Click here to read 'Odili Donald Odita in conversation with Joost Bosland' from this publication

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 teaches painting at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. He inaugurated the Project Space at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, with Equalizer (2007). Other 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. Full CV

Also see www.odilidonaldodita.com.