Odili Donald Odita
Mokgosi, Odita and Orupabo at the In Brooklyn

Meleko Mokgosi, Odili Donald Odita and Frida Orupabo feature in Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, taking place at the Brooklyn Museum. The presentation spotlights works by Black diasporic artists, part of the museum's ongoing efforts to expand the art-historical narrative. 

Odili Donal Odita at Rice University

Odili Donald Odita presents Meeting Place / Painting with Changing Parts, a new installation at the Moody Center for Arts at Rice University. The commission functions to 'heighten our awareness of physical space to illuminate our relationship to the broader world'.

Odita and Mokgosi in Stressed World

Meleko Mokgosi and Odili Donald Odita exhibit in Stressed World at Jack Shainman. The works are selected for how they 'remind us that the stressors of our times—from ecological strain to the sociological trouble embedded in our own collective histories'. 

Odili Donald Odita at the Green Family Art Foundation

Odili Donald Odita features in Black Abstractionists: From Then ‘til Now at the Green Family Art Foundation. Featuring multiple generations of artists the exhibition aims to reflect how the 'history of Black artists working in abstraction is inseparable from the history of modern and contemporary art'.  

Odili Donald Odita named 2022 Pew Arts Centre Fellow

Odili Donald Odita is among the 2022 recipients of a fellowship by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. The award recognizes how Odita 'uses color and pattern in abstract paintings, murals, and other public artworks that place African art and culture in dialogue with Western aesthetics'. 

Odili Donald Odita at Morgan

Odili Donald Odita exhibits alongside Sam Jablon in Color/Code, a cross-generational exhibition at Morgan. The exhibition  highlights pairs of artists that consider color and its uses in generating and communicating content in painting.

Color Talks with Odili Donald Odita

As part of Colour Field, Odili Donald Odita will take part in a Zoom discussion on public works with Maria C. Gaztambide, the chief curator of public art at the University of Houston System, where the exhibition takes place. 

Odili Donald Odita in Philadelphia

Odili Donald Odita exhibits a new mural in New Grit: Art & Philly Now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For this show, artists with a strong relationship to the city are asked to explore ideas of being and belonging. Odita will present a discussion of the work. 

Odili Donald Odita in Colour Field, Houston

Odili Donald Odita is included in Colour Field at the University of Houston. The exhibition, first shown at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 'provides opportunities to question our perceptions while thinking about the impact color has on our lives'. 

Odili Donald Odita at Laumeier Sculpture Park

Odili Donald Odita presents From Periphery to Center a solo installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park, meditating on ‘similarities and differences, bonds and divisions’. The exhibition continues at Jeske Sculpture Park in Ferguson, Missouri, creating dialogue between the spaces. 

Odili Donald Odita mural in Miami

Odili Donald Odita presents Mamba Negra, a new site-specific mural at the ICA Miami. The painting spans the height of all three floors of the museum and seeks to 'call attention to the tensions between cultural lineages such as machismo and current struggles for respect and recognition for women and LGBTQ+ communities'.

Odili Donald Odita in 'Color Field' at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Odili Donald Odita exhibits in Color Field, an outdoor sculpture exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Odita debuts a new work created specifically for this exhibition, titled Negative Space.

Odili Donald Odita Third Sun

A solo exhibition by Odili Donald Odita titled Third Sun shows at Jack Shainman Gallery. Celebration and subjectivity are key themes in this body of work.

Various artists at Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York

Nicholas HloboSerge Alain Nitegeka and Odili Donald Odita exhibit in Abstract Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. The exhibition spotlights artists pursuing 'abstraction as a way of engaging in a broader conversation about art'.

Siopis and Odita in New Orleans

Penny Siopis and Odili Donald Odita are among the artists showing on Prospect.4, the New Orleans triennial. Titled The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp and curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, 'P.4 takes the city’s distinctive character as a point of departure to investigate global concerns'.

Stevenson artists in Dusseldorf
Exchange at Galerie Hans Mayer in Düsseldorf featured works by 11 Stevenson artists: Zander Blom, Wim Botha, Ian Grose, Moshekwa Langa, Zanele Muholi, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Odili Donald Odita, Deborah Poynton, Robin Rhode, Viviane Sassen and Portia Zvavahera
Odili Donald Odita solo exhibition in Milan
Odili Donald Odita had a solo exhibition at Galleria M77 in Milan, titled The Differend. The show was accompanied by a monograph featuring an essay by Robert C Morgan.