Odili Donald Odita
Odili Donald Odita Hyperallergic

23 January 2023
Hyperallergic

'Abstract Art Did Not Begin With Paul Cézanne': John Yau reviews Odili Donald Odita's solo exhibiton at Jack Shainman, noting that the artist's work 'challenges the long-held belief that abstract art is a purely Western tradition'.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, March 2021

Artist Talk: Odili Donald Odita discusses space, his approach to painting and key bodies of work with Valerie Cassel Oliver

Bomb Magazine, July 2020

Odili Donald Odita speaks to Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi about art, migration and growing up with 'strangeness'  in this excerpt from an interview forming part of BOMB’s Oral History Project.

Cerebral Women Art Talks, June 2020

[PODCAST] Odili Donald Odita discusses his upbringing, his relationship with art history as well as the connection between art and humanity with Phyllis Hollis

Quiet Lunch, January 2018

'When working in abstraction as a person of color, like so many artists before me, I’m saying we have the freedom to express ourselves in an individual way' says Odili Donald Odita in this profile by Kurt McVey.

New Orleans Walks With You, September 2017

Odili Donald Odita discusses New Orleans, abstract art, heritage, music and culture with Emily Wilkerson, Allison Glenn and Willie Birch on the event of the Prospect.4 Triennial

Hyperallergic, January 2016

'Painted Colors in Conflicted Motion': Robert C Morgan looks back at a decade of painting by Odili Donald Odita in light of The Velocity of Change, his solo exhibition at Jack Shainman, New York

Forbes Magazine, February 2016

'Artist Odili Donald Odita Emphasizes Human Discrepancies Through Color and Lines at Jack Shainman': Odita is interviewed by Adam Lehrer on the occasion of his exhibition The Velocity of Change in New York

Contemporary And, 2015

'Tension through patterns': Odili Donald Odita in conversation with Stefanie Jason at the time of his exhibition Third Degree of Separation at Stevenson, Cape Town

Savvy: Art, Contemporary, African, 2011
'Chromatic Symphony': An interview with Odili Donald Odita by Missla Libsekal and Ilpo Jauhiainen following Odita's solo exhibition Body & Space at Jack Shainman, New York

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