Masters of Fine Art, Bennington College, Vermont
Major in Painting, Minor in Sculpture and Drawing
Bachelors of Fine Art (with distinction), The Ohio State University;
Excellence in the Arts Award, Major in Painting, Minor in Printmaking and Drawing
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Odili Donald Odita: A Survey of Context, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, September 13 – December 7
Field of Play, Dallas Cowboy AT & T Stadium, Arlington, TX, August 2024
Inter-Play, Lower.com Field, Columbus, OH, July 2024
FOG Art + Design, Representation: Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA, January 18 – 21
Degrees of Separation, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 11 – December 16
Open Veil, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA, January 13 – March 10
Windows, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 5 – April 11
Burning Cross, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY January 10 – February 18
Three Steps from Center, The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH, February 3 – April 18
Surrounding, The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA*
Meeting Place / Painting with Changing Parts, Rice University Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
Walls of Change, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, February 2021 – 2023
Climate Change, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, October 14 – November 13
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, May 2021 – 2023
Field and Sky, The Pavilion, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Mirror, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, September 10 – November 7
From Periphery to Center, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Outdoor Galleries, Northern Grove, St. Louis, MO, August 8 – December 20,
Procession, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Negative Space, Public Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX*
Mamba Negra, ICA Miami, Miami, FL, November 7, 2019 – November 1, 2020
Force Field, Sarasota Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, 2019 – 2020
Free Form, The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, New York, NY
Other World, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, May 22 – June 30
Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City. Constellation, curated by Michelle Grabner, Cleveland, OH, July 14 – September 30
New Horizon, Installation commission in the Dean’s Suite at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Third Sun, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, January 5 – February 10
Gateway, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
The Wisdom of Trees, Installation commission at Cummins Indy, Cummins Inc. Building, design by Deborah Burke. Indianapolis, IN
Field of Dreams, Installation commission for the collection of Al Shands, Great Meadows Foundation, Crestwood, KY.
The Differend, Curated by Robert C. Morgan and Michele Bonuomo, M77 Gallery, Milan, Italy, May 31 – September 17
Shadow & Light; Time Bridge, Murals, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, August 18, 2015 – October 1, 2017
The Velocity of Change, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, December 11, 2015 – January 30, 2016
Our House, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA
3RD Degree of Separation, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, May 5 – April 11, 2015
Bridge, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Infinite Horizon, George C. Young US Courthouse & Federal Building, Orlando, FL
This, That & The Other, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Grey, Beta Pictoris, Maus Contemporary Art, Birmingham, AL
Heaven’s Gate, Wall installation, Savannah College of Art & Design Museum or Art, Savannah, GA
Event Horizon, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, October 18–November 24
Forever, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, Curated by Miranda Lash.
Light and Vision, The US Mission to The United Nations, New York, NY
Body & Space, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Perspectives 169: Odili Donald Odita, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver. (Catalogue available)
Up & Away, Butler Commons, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Television, The Ulrich Museum at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Double Edge, The Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. (Catalogue available)
Third Space, The Ramp Space, ICA, curated by Stamatina Gregory, Philadelphia, PA
Equalizer, Studio Museum in Harlem, Project Room, New York, NY
FLOW, Contemporary Art Center, CAC Kaplan Hall, Cincinnati, OH
Fusion, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Paradise, Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
The Third Eye, Haunch of Vension (Galerie Judin Belot), Zurich, Switzerland
New Work, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany
Notes From Paradise, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
RESISTANCE, Matrix Art Project, Brussels, Belgium
Transformer, Hospitalhof, Stuttgart, Germany
New Work, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Art Statements with Florence Lynch Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL. (Catalogue available)
New Work, Galerie Schustser & Scheuermann, Berlin, Germany
New Work, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany
Interlude, WINTERGARTEN, curated by Bettina Muller-Schelken, Vienna, Austria
New Works, Miami Art Museum, curated by Cheryl Hartup, Miami, FL
LIFE, Riva Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings & Drawings, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY (Catalogue available)
Transfers/Odyssey, Kunsthalle, curated by Dorothea Strauss, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Passport, Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Work, Hofstra University, Alex Rosenberg Art Gallery, Calkins Hall, New York, NY
Color Theory, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
The Invisible Empire, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Jaws of Domesticity, der KIOSK, St. Gallen, Switzerland (Catalogue available)
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, September 13, 2024 – January 19, 2025; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, March 9 – July 13 (Traveling)
Small Paintings Show, XXS, curated by WENDY WHITE, Brintz + County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, Dates TBD
Doyle Lane and Odili Donald Odita, FOG Art + Design, Representation: David Kordansky Gallery, San Francisco, CA, January 20 – 23
Juxtapositions: Then and Now, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, December 11, 2024 – February 8
When Works Meet, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, December 7, 2024 - February 8
A Planar Garden, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY, November 21, 2024 – January 11
Art Basel/Miami Beach, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery; David Kordansky Gallery; Cristea Roberts Gallery, December 6 – 8
Outside Lines, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, September 13 – December 7
Art Basel/Paris, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery, October 18 – 20
The Armory Show, Representation: Cristea Roberts Gallery, New York, NY, September 6 – 8
Summer Exhibition 2024, Royal Academy of Art, Representation: Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK, June 18 – August 18
Art Basel/Basel, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery; David Kordansky Gallery; Cristea Roberts Gallery, June 13 – 16
Elevate the Object, SECCI Gallery, Milan, Italy, May 9 – September 14
Art Basel/Hong Kong, Representation: David Kordansky Gallery, March 28 – 30
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, February 10 – July 7
Frieze Los Angeles, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery, February 29 – March 3
IFPDA Print Fair, Representation: Cristea Roberts Gallery, Park Avenue Amory, New York, NY, February 16 – 18
Abstract Perspectives, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, January 11 – February 29
Counterpoint, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK, January 2 – March 2
The Artist List, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, SA, December 2, 2023 – January 20
Art Basel/Miami Beach, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery, David Kordansky Gallery, December 6 – 10
Kabinett, Art Basel/Miami Beach, Representation: Cristea Roberts Gallery, December 6 – 10
INK Miami Art Fair, Representation: Flying Horse Editions, December 6 – 10
The IFPDA Print Fair, Representation: Crown Point Press; Flying Horse Editions, New York, NY, October 26 – 29
Frieze London, Representation: Stevenson Gallery, October 11 – 15
Morphologies, David Totah Gallery, curated by Max Werner, with Mike Cloud, Samuel Jablon, Jo Messer, Sam Messer, New York, NY, November 14 – February 3
Impulse, Galerie Thomas, with Jenny Carlsson Grip, Matt Mullican, Odili Donald Odita, Collin Sekajugo, Munich, Germany, September 9 – October 21
20, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July 8 – August 19
Art Basel/Basel, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery, David Kordansky Gallery, June 15 – 18
Tales for a Stranger, Maruani Mercier Gallery, curated by Azu Nwagbogu, Brussels, Belgium, May 27 – July 1
Beyond the Surface, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, June 16, 2022 – May 14, 2023
INK Miami Art Fair, Representation: Flying Horse Editions, November 30 – December 4
Stressed World, The School: Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, June 5 – December 3
Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, March 4 – July 31
Contemporary Expressions: Prints from Flying Horse Editions (1996 – 2021), Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, January 21 – May 30
Deep Dive: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, May 26 — July 30
Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M Pérez Collection, The Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, November 7, 2020 – February 6, 2022
Color/Code: Sam Jablon & Odili Donald Odita, Morgan Presents, New York, NY, September 23 – November 2
Today and Tomorrow, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, July 2 – August 1
New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, May 7 – August 22
Color Field, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR: June 1-September 30, 2019. Travelled to: Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL: November 25, 2019 – May 15, 2020; University of Houston System, Houston, Texas, October 2020 – May 2021
Theft and Destruction, Galeria Arsenal, Poland, February 21 – April 9
Making Community: Prints from Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Brodsky Center at PAFA and Paulson Fontaine Press, Philadelphia, PA, February 1 - April 12
The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction, DC Moore Gallery, curated by Richard Kalina, New York, NY., June 13 – August 9
Color Field, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, curated by Allison Glenn, Bentonville, AR., June 1 – September 30
Generations: A History of Black and Abstract Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, September 29, 2019 – January 19, 2020
Every Day: Selections from the Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, July 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Selected Contemporary Paintings and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 28 – May 11
Count of Three, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY, April 18 – May 25
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, January 16 – April 14, 2019; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, May 24 – August 18, 2019; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI, September 13 – December 8, 2019; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, January 17 – April 12, 2020; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, May 9 – August 2, 2020; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, August 28 – December 13, 2020
Double Edged: Geometric Abstraction Then and Now, The Bob & Lissa Shelley McDowell Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, May 25 – August 18
How We See: Materiality and Color, the Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO, March 2 – June 30
Frieze Los Angeles, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery, February 15 – 17
Parking on Pavement, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, November 17, 2018 – March 2, 2019
MAKESHIFT, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Curated by Michelle Grabner, Sheboygan, WI, September 22, 2018 – March 3, 2019
Abstract Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists, Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, January 24 – April 15, 2018. Traveled to: August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, April 27 – July 22
Frieze London, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery, October 4 – October 7
Take Up Space, the Pizzuti Collection, curated by Greer Pagano, Columbus, OH, September 8 – January 27
Prospect.4, US Biennial curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, The Indivisible and Invincible: Monument to Black Liberation and Celebration in the City of New Orleans, November 11, 2017 - February 25, 2018, Prospect New Orleans. Located in the greater New Orleans area, LA 70112
Anachronism and Liberation, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, curated by Mary Henderson and Jane Irish, Philadelphia, PA Includes: Ana Hernandez, Roberto Lugo, Rebecca Ness, Odili Donald Odita, Robert Pruitt, Lisi Raskin, Han Wang, Charles Edward Williams, and Alexi Worth. August 4 - September 17
Vital Curiosity, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, curated by Josh Blackwell ’95 and Erin McKenny, Bennington, Vermont. Includes: Helen Frankenthaler ’49, Grace Bakst Wapner ’55, Stephen Mueller MFA ’71, Carrie Moyer ’82, Odili Donald Odita MFA ’90, Noam Rappaport ’94, and Paul Feeley (faculty member, 1940–66)
Field of Dreams, Installation commission for the collection of Al Shands, Great Meadows Foundation, Crestwood, KY
Third Space, Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, Jemison Galleries at The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, January 28, 2017 – January 6, 2019
A Painting Today, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, March 6 – April 22
nonObjectives, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 16 – July 23, 2017
NEW NEW YORK: Continuum, The Curator Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY, February 23 – April 15
Art Basel/Miami Beach, Representation: Jack Shainman Gallery, December 1-4
In Context: Africans in America, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Johannesburg Art Gallery, 17November 2016 – 17 December 2016. Group Show: ruby onyinyechi amanze, Ghada Amer, Kajahl, Stan Douglas, Brendan Fernandes, Theaster Gates, Eric Gottesman, Lyle Ashton Harris, Alfredo Jaar, Ayana V Jackson, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Wangechi Mutu, Paulo Nazareth, Odili Donald Odita, Dawit L. Petros, Valerie Piraino, Daapo Reo, Tabita Rezaire, Mikhael Subotzky, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley
EXCHANGE, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany, October 14 – November 2016. Group Show: 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
(VBS) Vital Burning Sunset. Curated by Todd von Ammon. Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont. September 20 – October 16, 2016
Confluence/Influence: Mingei in Contemporary Abstraction, curated by Leslie Wayne with Bridget Donlon. Dorsky Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY, September 18 – December 10
The Pineapple Show. Curated by Zina Saro-Wiwa. Boys’ Quarters Project Space, London, UK, July 8 – August
The Condition of Place: The Woodmere Annual 75th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, June 4 – August 28
Color + Theory: Past and Present, The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, February 18 – May 6
Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, September 19 – January 10, 2016
SCHEMA, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, November 26, 2015 – January 16, 2016 (Catalogue available)
NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century, University Art Galleries & The John Young Museum of Art, of Hawaii, Manoa, August 1 – December 31
Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 10 – April 5
CHROMA, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, November 24, 2014 – January 17, 2015 (Catalogue available)
Evolving Geometries: Line, Form and Color, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, September 25 – November 20
Sound Vision: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, March 6–August 3
Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, January 15
North By Northwest, Mount Airy Contemporary at Marginal Utility as part of CITYWIDE, Philadelphia, PA
Pulp 3, Beta Pictoris Maus Contemporary Art, Birmingham, AL, August 9-September 7
Never Underestimate a Monochrome, University of Iowa Museum of Art, September 30, 2012–January 31, 2013
The Geometric Unconscious: Desire, Discipline and Modern Art, 1910-2010, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, October 5, 2012–January 20, 2013 (Traveling)
Africa and Abstraction: Mancoba, Odita, Blom, Art Feature presentation at Art Basel 43, Basel, Switzerland (Catalogue available)
Magical Visions, University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, February 8–June 30
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, November 10, 2011–March 11, 2012
Karmic Abstraction, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, Curated by Bridgette Mayer. (Catalogue available)
Ars 2011, Kiasma Museum, curated by Arja Miller, Helsinki, Finland (Catalogue available)
Building The Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, Durham, North Carolina, March 10–August 14
Geography of Somewhere, Brodie/Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 14–May 13
20 Years Thami Mnyele Foundation, CBK Zuidoost, Amersterdam, March 12–April 29
The Global Africa Project, Museum of Art & Design, New York, Curated by Lowery Sims Stokes. (Catalogue available)
Off the Grid, G Fine Art, Washington D.C.
Wild is the Wind, Pei Ling Chan Gallery at the Savannah College of Art & Design, Curated by Laurie Ann Farrell. (Catalogue available)
Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz. (Catalogue available)
Strip / Stripe, Elizabeth Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
Poised, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Contemporary Art of Africa and the African Diaspora, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, curated by Carol Thompson (Catalogue available)
Summer 2008/9, The Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. (Catalogue available)
Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, The Herbert and Mildred Lee Gallery, curated by Odili Donald Odita, Waltham, MA
Artcrush, Jenny Jaskey Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
52nd Venice Biennale, International Art Exhibition, Think With The Senses, Feel With the Mind, Curated by Robert Storr, Venice, Italy. (Catalogue available)
Summer 2007/8, The Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. (Catalogue available)
Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, curated by Lisa Fanning, Kansas City, MO
The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, curated by Odili Donald Odita, New York, NY (Catalogue available)
POST Painterly Abstraction, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, curated by Yong Soon Min, New York, NY
Baroque-Ademia, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Ordering & Seduction, Haus Konstruktiv, curated by Dorothea Strauss, Zurich, Switzerland
Distant Relatives, Relative Distance, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Catalogue available)
Synthetic Rhapsody: Florida in Miami, AR Contemporary Gallery, curated by A.A. Rucci, Milan, Italy
The Beautiful Game, Roebling Hall, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker and Franklin Sirmans, New York and Brooklyn, NY
Represent: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, curated by Peter Boswell, Miami, FL
Holy Land: Diaspora and the Desert, Heard Museum of Native American Art, curated by Lara Taubman, Phoenix, AZ
The Whole World is Rotten, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Nederland 1, Museum Gouda, curated by Tiong Ang, Gouda, The Netherlands
Parallel Economies, Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
-poiesis, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, June 29–July 28
The Shape of Jazz, Clifford Chance Projects, New York, NY
Luanda Triennale 2006, The Triennale of Luanda, Luanda, Angola
Round Leather Worlds, Martin Gropius Bau, curated by Dorothea Strauss, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue available)
The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950–2005, Art Gallery of Ontario, curated by David Moos, Ontario, Canada (Catalogue available)
Surface Charge, Virginia Commonwealth University Museum, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Richmond, VA (Catalogue available)
A Warlike People: Victims or Perpetrators, Monorchid Gallery, curated by Lara Taubman, Phoenix, AZ
Collectors Show and Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
UnStaged, Arti et Amicitiae, curated by Charlie Citron, Amsterdam, Netherlands
DAK’ART 2004 – Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art; North American representative in Diaspora section curated by Ivo Mesquita (Catalogue available)
ANTHOLOGY OF ART, School of Fine Arts, Braunschweig; Visual Arts Department, University of Rennes; Art History Department, University of Budapest; Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Zentrum fur Medienkunst, Karlsruh; Manifest/Symposium, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; the Neuhardenberg Foundation, Berlin; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. (Catalogue available)
Flipside, Artists Space, New York, curated by Katherine Carl and Fritzie Brown. (Catalogue available)
Visualizing Diaspora/Constructing Self, GASP, curated by Magda Campos-Pons, Boston, MA
Transit: Abstracting the System, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
Home Extension, University Art Museum, Albany, NY, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ. (Catalogue available)
Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX, curated by Shannon Fitzgerald & Tumelo Mosaka. (Catalogue available)
Black President, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Barbican Art Galleries, London, UK; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker. (Catalogue available)
After Matisse & Picasso, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Art Positions with Kevin Bruk Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
Yellow Pages, Turm Gallery, curated by John Armleder & the 404 Team, Helmstedt, Germany
Specificity, Riva Gallery, New York, NY
Collection in Context, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
Miami Currents, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Fields' Edge: Africa, Diaspora, Lens, University of South Florida, curated by Rory Bester & Amanda Carlson, Tampa, FL
Painting As Paradox, Artist Space, curated Lauri Firstenberg, New York, NY (Catalogue available)
Peculiarly Pink, LUXE, New York, NY
Irrational Propositions, POST, Los Angeles, California, curated by Habib Kheradyar
Pictures, Greene/Naftali Inc., New York, NY
Here And Now, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, & Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland (Catalogue available)
Group Show, Kjbuh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, represented by Florence Lynch Gallery
Out of America, Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Frankfurt & Berlin, Germany
Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface and Frame, Institute of Contemporary Art, curated by Karen E. Jones, Philadelphia, PA
Material and Matter, The Studio Museum of Harlem, curated by Thelma Golden & Christine Y. Kim, New York, NY
Chelsea Rising, Contemporary Arts Center, curated by David Rubin, New Orleans, LA (Catalogue available)
Pleasures of Sight and States of Being: Radical Abstract Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, FSU, and The Appleton Museum of Art, curated by Dr. Roald Nasgaard, Ocala, FL, (Catalogue available)
Five Continents & One City, 3rd International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City, Africa Section, curated by Olu Oguibe (Catalogue available)
Transcending The Norm And Some, New Jersey City University, Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Zeitwenden: Ausblick Ruckblick--(Jet Lag Experiment), Museum of Modern Art, Bonn, and Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
IN-VISIBLE: Abstractions & Narratives, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
Kunstmarkt, Residenzschloss Dresden, Dresden, Germany, represented by Florence Lynch Gallery
Outside Edge: A Survey, Unversite de Paris 1, Pantheon, La Sorbonne, Paris, France
4X4; Alexandre de Folin Gallery, New York, NY
Ideoscape, Boston Center for the Arts, curated by Shelly Bancroft and Edmund Barry Gaither, Boston, MA
Civil Sex, (First Stages Collaboration w/ Brian Freeman), Public Theater, Shiva Gallery, New York, NY
Vanishing Pt., Cynthia Broan Gallery, curated by Margaret Evangeline, New York, NY
You Are Here, Matrix Art Project (MAP), curated by Jesus Polanco, New York, NY
Paradise 8 (Permanent Resident / Home And The World); Curatorial Project- Exit Art, New York, NY
ART/OMI, International Artist Residency Exhibition, Ghent, New York, NY
Crossing Lines, Art-In-General, New York, NY
2ND JOHANNESBURG BIENNALE 1997, SOUTH AFRICA, Projects Section: Billboard & Bus Shelter Posters, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Johannesburg, South Africa (Catalogue available)
Diversity In Contemporary Africa: Survey Exhibition of Contemporary African Art, The Ohio State University, curated by Okechukwu E. Odita, Columbus, Ohio (Catalogue available)
REALLY, UnFinished Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, curated by Odili Donald Odita
Interior-Life, RUSH ARTS, NY with Bili Bidjocka, Senga Nengudi, Jocelyn Taylor, & Fred Wilson curated by Odili Donald Odita , New York, (Catalogue available)
Aphrodisia, The Alternative Museum; New York, NY
Something I Saw In Brooklyn..., Galerie Elizabeth Valleix, Paris, France
ONE, RUSH Fine Arts, curated by Reneé Cox, New York, NY
At the Foreground of Paths, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
Modern Life, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, in conjunction with Newark Museum, New Jersey, curated by Okwui Enwezor and Carl Hazlewood, Newark, NJ
Stitches, FOUR WALLS, November 12, Williamsburg-Brooklyn, NY writer/artist collaboration with Adnan Ashraf (Publication available)
GOTCHA!, Momenta Art, curated by Odili Donald Odita, Williamsburg-Brooklyn, NY, (Catalogue available)
CELEBRITY'Hood, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx Council on the Arts, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Bronx, NY
Either/Or, Flamingo East, curated by Kenny Schachter, New York, NY
Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, represented by Momenta Art & Pierogi 2000
Split-Level, Art-In-General, New York, NY
Unfolding Stories, John Jay College of Art, Music & Philosophy, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY
Pseudo Museum, Jupiter Interactive Productions, concurrent exhibition on-line, curated by Alfredo Martinez, New York, NY
The Third Forum of Visual Art, Museum of Art, Brasilia, Brazil (Catalogue available)
FIReD: a late nite comedy show, THICKET, New York; No BIAS, North Bennington, VT, curated by Odili Donald Odita (Catalogue available)
Go Back and Fetch It (It Means Sankofa), Gallery ANNEXT and RUSH Fine Arts Management, New York, NY
FIAR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE- Art Under 30 (1991-1993), Milan, Rome, Paris, London, Los Angeles, New York, curated by Dan Cameron, National Academy of Design, New York selection (Catalogue available)
Trespass-Beyond Borders, Right Bank Gallery, curated by Odili Donald Odita, Brooklyn, NY
A Grand Tour, Swiss Institute, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, New York, NY
Without A Notion (A Painting Show), 88 Room, curated by Winston C. Robinson, Boston, MA
Pew Fellow, The Pew Foundation for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, PA
Member, National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY
The Janet Sloane Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, 2007 Biennial Award
The Thami Mnyele Residency Foundation Grant for African Artists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Summer 2004
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
Nomination for Best Show of the Year for “Color Theory” at the Florence Lynch Gallery, by the International Association of Art Critics in New York, NY
ArtsLink Collaborative Projects Award in Warsaw, Poland for exhibition, "Here & Now"
Reithalle Artist Residency, St. Gallen, Switzerland
ART/OMI- International Artist Residency, Omi, NY
Penny McCall Foundation Grant, New York, NY
American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham,
ALComcast Technology Center, Philadelphia, PA
Downtown Durham YMCA, Durham, NC
George C. Young Federal Building and US Courthouse, Orlando, FL
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
MTA Arts for Transit, New York, NY
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida (formally Miami Art Museum), Miami, FL
Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Princeton University, Butler College, Princeton, NJ
Percent for the Arts, PS 340, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Standard Bank Art Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Dean Collection LLC, New York, NY
Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
United States Mission to the United Nations, United Nations, New York, NY
Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech, Blackburg, VA
Ezra Stiles College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
(*Indicates temporary installation)
Field of Play, Dallas Cowboy AT & T Stadium, Arlington,
TXInter-Play, Columbus Crew Stadium, Columbus, OH
Surrounding, The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA*
Meeting Place / Painting with Changing Parts, Rice University Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
Field and Sky, The Pavilion, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL*
Walls of Change, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA*
Procession, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Odili Donald Odita: From Periphery to Center, Laumeier Sculpture Park & Jeske Sculpture Park, MO*
Negative Space, Public Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX*
Force Field, Sarasota Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL*
Mamba Negra, ICA Miami, Miami, FL*
Free Form, The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, New York, NY
Constellation, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH*
Gateway, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ*
The Wisdom of Trees, Cummins Distribution Headquarters, Indianapolis, IN
Rise, Yale University, New Haven, CT Time Bridge, 2015, YMCA, Durham, NC
Shadow and Light, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Our House, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA*
Bridge, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA*
Possible Worlds, PS340M, New York, NY
Infinite Horizon, George C. Young US Courthouse & Federal Building
Kaleidoscope, MTA 20th Avenue D Train, New York, NY
Heaven’s Gate, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA*
Time and Time, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Forever, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Time Curve, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland*
Light and Vision, The US Mission to The United Nations, New York, NY
Post Perfect, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA*
Up and Away, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Third Space, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA*
Equalizer, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY*
Flow, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Give Me Shelter, Venice Biennale*
Thomas, Taliesin, “10 Shows to See in Upstate New York This February,” Hyperallergic, January 29
Yau, John, “WTF Is Planar Painting?,” Hyperallergic, January 23, 2025
Westfall Stephan and Alexandre Gallery, “A planar garden: 21 Nov 2024-1 Feb 2025 at the Alexandre Gallery in New York, United States,” December 18, 2024
Wooten, Kristi York, “'Giants' at the High: Here's what Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz want museumgoers to see and hear,” RoughDraft Atlanta, October 7, 2024
Wooten, Kristi York, “'Giants' at the High: Here's what Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz want museumgoers to see and hear,” Georgia Public Broadcasting, October 4, 2024
Gant, Kimberli and Indira A. Abiskaroon, Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swiss Beatz and Alicia Keys, New York: Phaidon and Brooklyn Museum, 2024
Thomason, Shannon, “UAB’s AEIVA presents Odili Donald Odita: a mid-career survey of the artist’s works,” University of Alabama Birmingham News, August 29, 2024
Wheatley, Thomas, “Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz look up to "Giants" at the High,” Axios Atlanta, September 17, 2024
Paschal, Belinda M., “Painter Odili Donald Odita adds vibrant art to Columbus Crew Way,” The Columbus Dispatch, September 1, 2024
Valentine, Victoria L., “New York Museums Are Showcasing African American Art, From the Harlem Renaissance to Contemporary Configuration, Sonya Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, and More,” Culture Type, April 21, 2024
Rushmore, RJ, “Art For Change: A Grand and Gorgeous Abstraction,” ThePhiladelphiaCitizen.org, April 4, 2024
Yerebakan, Osman Can, “Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Art Collection Goes on View at the Brooklyn Museum,” GalerieMagazine.com, February 16, 2024
Chapoteau, Nicole, “The Opening of the Brooklyn Museum’s New Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz Exhibit Was a Who’s Who of Black Art,” VanityFair.com, February 8, 2024
Jones, Okla, “The Brooklyn Museum Announces ‘Giants: Art From The Dean Collection Of Swizz Beatz And Alicia Keys’,” Essence, December 27, 2023
“The Artist List,” Stevenson Gallery exhibition publication, December 2023, p. 26
“4 Artists on How Ellsworth Kelly Shape the Way They See the World,” CulturedMag.com, May 25, 2023 Meischke, Jamila, “Zwart Betejent Overal Wat Anders [Black Means Something Different Everywhere],” NRC, April 1 -2, 2023, pp. 24-25
“Public Talk with Odili Donald Odita,” Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX, February 24, 2023
Hopkins, Zoë, “Odili Donald Odita,” Artforum.com, February 6, 2023
Sternthal, Ian, ed., Odili Donald Odita, Montreal: Sternthal Books, 2023
Sternthal, Ian, ed., Odili Donald Odita, Montreal: Sternthal Books, 2022
“Step Inside the Studio of Painter Odili Donald Odita, Who Couches Political Issues in Colorful Abstractions,”News.Artnet.com, December 20, 2022
Edwards, Schaefer, “Dynamic, Abstract Odita Mural Enlivens Walls of Shepherd School,” News.Rice.edu, October 10, 2022
“The University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum Reopens to the Public After 14 Years,” ArtNews.com, September 14, 2022
Delagrange, Julien, “The Top 30 African Painters You Need to Know Today,” Montague Contemporary, February 22, 2022
Barraza, Paris, “Plan Your Visit to Iowa City’s New Stanley Museum Around These 9 Pieces of Art,” Iowa City Press Citizen, press-citizen.com, August 25, 2022
Smith, Brandi, “Hidden Gem: Public Art Collection at the University of Houston,” KHOU.com, June 16, 2022
Durón, Maximilíano, “Odili Donald Odita, Painter of Dynamic Abstractions, Joins David Kordansky Gallery,” ArtNews.com, June 2, 2022
“Odili Donald Odita and Jane Dickson in Conversation,” Jane Dickson, Jane Dickson, Shellyne Rodriguez, Chris Kraus, Odili Donald Odita, eds., James Fuentes Press, 2022
Nollen, Diane, “Black artist’s showstopping art coming to Iowa,” The Miami Times, 27 April 2022
Jones, Parker, “Creating Stanley Museum’s first work of art,” The Daily Iowan, 19 April 2022
Dyna, Jennifer, “Art with a conscience,” The Harvard Gazette, 7 April 2022
Moss, Meredith, “The Contemporary gallery is awash in color and pattern,” Dayton Daily News, 19 March 2022
Today and Tomorrow, edited by Jungyeon Park, Seoul: Gana Art, 2021 Thomas, Alexandra, M., “A Transgenerational and Intercultural Look at Abstract Painting,” Hyperallergic.com, November 1, 2021
Morrill, Rebecca and Simon Hunegs (eds). African Artists from 1882 to Now, Phaidon Press Limited, November 2021
Thomas, Alexandra, M., “A Transgenerational and Intercultural Look at Abstract Painting,” Hyperallergic, November 1, 2021
Henderson, Jane. “A Room with a View: Philadelphia-Based Artist Odili Odita Designs ‘Field and Sky’ Mural for Penn Medicine’s Pavilion,” Penn Medicine News, October 26, 2021
Zhang, Lisa Yin. “Color/Code Sam Jablon & Odili Donald Odita,” The Guide. Art, November 2021
Ingeno, Lauren, “Philadelphia artist Odili Odita’s Pavilion mural is a ‘kaleidoscope landscape’,” Penn Today, October 29, 2021
“The Modern Art Notes features artists Odili Donald Odita and David Hartt,” The Modern Art Notes Podcast, episode no. 524, November 18, 2021
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Stanley Whitney Dances with Matisse,” The New York Times, October 29, 2021
Weber, Nicholas Fox, Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal, New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2020
Fleetwood, Nicole R., Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020
Green, Sarah Urist, You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation, New York: Penguin Books, 2020
Karmel, Pepe, Abstract Art: A Global History, London: Thames & Hudson, 2020
“Oral History Project: Odili Donald Odita by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi,” BombMagazine.com, November 20, 2020
McGlynn, Tom, “Odili Donald Odita with Tom Mcglynn,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 6, 2020
Yau, John, “An Abstract Painter Defines a Space of His Own,” Hyperallergic.com, October 2, 2020
Gold, Susanna, Charles Library Art Collection: Temple University, Susanna W. Gold, Ph.D., pp. 15, 58-59, 2020
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, with texts by Connie H. Choi, Thelma Golden, and Kellie Jones, New York: American Federation of Arts & Rizzoli Electa, 2019, pp. 152-153
Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti, with texts by Tyler Cann, Rebecca Ibel, Nannette Maciejunes, and Dara Pizzuti, Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art, 2019, p. 105
Rodney, Seph, “Turning the Artist’s Studio Inside Out,” Hyperallergic.com, November 19, 2019
Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, edited by Michelle Grabner, Cleveland: FRONT/Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018
Third Space: Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art, edited by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2018
Christian, Re’al, “Odili Donald Odita,” Artnews.com, Art in America, March 1, 2018
Forum, Art, “Odili Donald Odita Third Sun,” Round.nyc, January 1, 2018
Desmarais, Charles, “SF Art Collector Pamela Joyner Reframing Art History,” SFGate.com, March 7, 2017
O’Toole, Sean, “Review: Africans in America,” Artforum International, February 2017, p. 240
Lindquist, David, “New Cummins Tower Stays True to Company’s Aesthetics,” IndyStar.com, January 5, 2017
Sheldon Museum of Art, Brandon K. Ruud, and Gregory Nosan. Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art. 2014: p. 248-249, illustrated.
Newhall, Edith. “Show at PAFA ponders the fate of two spurned statues.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 10, 2017
“Odili Donald Odita,” Mural Arts Philadelphia, 14 July 14, 2017
Bonney, Grace, “Fine Art Focus: Odili Donald Odita,” Design*Sponge, July 14, 2017
“Alumni Relations,” Bennington Magazine, Summer 2017: p. 45, 51
Desmarais, Charles, “SF art collector Pamela Joyner reframing art history,” SF Gate, March 7, 2017
Lindquist, David. “New Cummins tower stays true to company’s aesthetics.” IndyStar. 05 January 2017.
O’Toole, “Odili Donald Odita,” Prospect New Orleans, May 24, 2017
Childs, Quincy, “The Language Of Painting By Artist Odita At Jack Shainman Gallery,” Artreport, January 25, 2017
Masse, Don, “Angling with Odili,” Arts and Activities, February 10, 2017
“Whitescapes – Odili Donald Odita,” The Art Assignment. PBS Digital Studios, February 16, 2017
di Torchiarolo, Eleonora Caracciolo, “Odili Donald Odita – The Artist Who Speaks in Color,” ArteIn.it, August 13, 2016
Farinotti, Rossella, “Review: Odili Donald Odita, M77, Milan,” Flash Art Italia, July – September 2016
Beatrice, Luca, “Milan, Here Is the Other Cathedral. It Is Abstract, Painted by a Nigerian: Odili Odita,” Il Giornale, July 18, 2016
Tattoli, Federica, “The Differend/Odili Donald Odita,” Visitor Design, June 28, 2016
Nidiaci, Giuditta Elettra Lavinia, “Odili Odita: Color as A Metaphor for Dispute and Differences,” ItalianFactoryMagazine.com, June 15, 2016 (in Italian)
Meloni, Bruna, “The Differend,” Montenapoleoneweb.com, June 13, 2016
Falcone, Massimiliano, “Moda & Arte / Massimiliano Falcone: A Tribute to Odili Donald Odita a Capsule, An Artist.” Grognards, June 1, 2016
“Odili Donald Odita Explores Colour Between Africa and America,” Arte, June 2016
“Review: Odili Donald Odita, The Differend, Galleria M77,” Kyoss, June 2016
Busacca, Meg, “5 Exhibitions You Don’t Want to Miss In New York City,” FashionTimes.com, January 14, 2016
Morgan, Robert, “Painted Colors in Conflicted Motion,” Hyperallergic.com, January 21, 2016
Walker, Ian. “Professors’ art comments on cultural, racial complexities,” The Temple News. November 15, 2016. Online.
Zarich, Katie. “Art All Around Us.” The Block, November 2016. Online.
Morgan, Robert C. & Bonuomo, Michele. The Differend, M77 Gallery, 2016
Brown, Will, “Odili Donald Odita: I want to use colour to have an effect on the mind and body,” Studio International, January 2, 2016
Lehrer, Adam. “Artist Odili Donald Odita Emphasizes human Discrepancies Through Color and Lines at Jack Shainman,” Forbes, February 10, 2016
Forsythe, Pamela J., “'The Condition of Place,' the Woodmere Museum's 75th annual juried exhibition,” Broad Street Review, July 2, 2016
Hudson, Suzanne Perling, Painting Now, London: Thames & Hudson, 2015, p. 152
Nasher10: Celebrating a Decade, edited by Wendy Hower, Durham: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2015, pp. 172-173, 182-183
Bruney, Gabrielle, “Politics in Bursts of Color,” Vice.com, The Creators Project, December 19, 2015 “
Nasher Mural Work Completed,” Today.Duke.edu, August 24, 2015
“Grit Award: Odili Donald Odita,” HeraldSun.com, August 7, 2015
Bellamy, Cliff, “Color as an Agent of Change: Nasher Commissions Two Murals for 10th Anniversary,” HeraldSun.com, August 3, 2015
Rinaldi, Ray Mark, “At the Art Hotel, the Business Plan Borrows from the Museum World,” DenverPost.com, June 19, 2015
Jason, Stefanie, “Tension Through Patterns: In Conversation with Artist Odili Donald Odita,” ContemporaryAnd.com, March 27, 2015
Ogden, Kate Nearpass. “Painters and Painting,” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Rutgers University, 2015
Awachi, Ifeanyi. “'Rise' at Ezra Stiles: Original contemporary African artwork unveiled,” Yale News, May 20, 2015
Jason, Stefanie, “In Conversation with artist Odili Donald Odita: Tension Through Patterns,” Contemporary And, March 27, 2015
Twenty First Century Art Book, New York: Phaidon, 2014, p. 188
Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art, edited by Brandon K. Ruud and Gregory Nosan, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014, p. 248-249
Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, Represent: 200 Years of African American Art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Haven: Yale University of Press, 2014, p. 197
Dunlap, David, “A New York Subway Line That Doubles as an Art Gallery,” The New York Times, October 15, 2014
Sheets, Hilarie, “Odili Donald Odita,” Elle Décor, no. 205, May 2014, pp. 88, 90
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Black Abstraction: Not a Contradiction,” ARTnews, June 2014, p. 62
Sheets, Hilarie M., “The Changing Complex Profile of Black Abstract Painters,” ARTnews, June 4, 2014
Karmel, Pepe, “The Golden Age of Abstraction: Right Now,” ARTnews, April 2014, p. 112
“Diversities in the Arts if the African Diaspora,” The Barnes Foundation, February 28, 2014
Booth, Catelynn, “Art Review: Artworks Engage Architecture at Virginia Tech’s Moss Arts Center,” Burnaway: The Voice of Art in the South, November 20, 2014
Bloodworth, Sandra & Ayres, William. New York's Underground Art Museum: MTA Arts & Design, The Monacelli Press, 2014: pp. 130-131
Allen, Mike, “Arts & Extras: ‘Intergalactic Nemesis’ lands at Virginia Tech,” The Roanoke Times, September 19, 2014
Kalb, Peter R., Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary, London: Pearson, 2013, p. 255
Agustsson, Sola, “Odili Donald Odita’s Mesmerizing Paintings,” Whitewall.art, October 24, 2013
Hicks, Cinque, “Odili Donald Odita,” Artforum, April 2013
Morrison, Keith, Magical Visions: 10 Contemporary African American Artists, Newark: University of Delaware, 2012
Bourland, William Ian, Different Objects: Repositioning the Work of Four ‘African Diaspora’ Artists, Ph.D. Dissertation, Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Art History, 2012
Stiles, Kristine, and Peter Howard Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012, pp. 89, 190
Africa and Abstraction: Mancoba, Odita, Blom, interview with Robert Hobbs, Johannesburg: David Krut Books, 2012, pp. 29-41
Costello, Sara Ruffin, “Americans Abroad,” The Wall Street Journal Magazine, May 2012, pp. 92, 94
“Event Horizon,” Mail & Guardian, October 26, 2012.
Leonard, Randy, “Nobody Goes To The Hospital for the View, But…,” The New York Times, October 25, 2012.
Troeller, Jordan, “Hi Jack,” Art Forum, August 2012
Sutton, Benjamin, “Hi Jack,” Blouin ArtInfo, August 2012
Johnson, Paddy, “Staff Shows,” The L Magazine, August 2012
Chou, Kimberly, “Harlem’s Renaissance Man,” The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2012
Buys, Anthea, “Trade Routes Over Time,” Art South Africa, vol. 10, issue 4, Winter 2012, p. 76
Veneciano, Jorge Daniel, ed. The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction (American Transnationalism: Perspectives from the Sheldon Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Press, 2012.
"Odili Donald Odita." Kiasma, 2012.
“Americans Abroad,”The Wall Street Journal Magazine, May 2012
ARS 11, Helsinki: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, 2011, pp. 178-183
Brodie, David, Geography of Somewhere, Johannesburg: Stevenson Gallery, 2011
Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2011
Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2011, pp. 226-229
Yau, John, Karmic Abstraction, Philadelphia: Bridgette Mayer Gallery, 2011
“Chromatic Symphony Interview with Odili Donald Odita,” Savvy: Art,
Contemporary, Africa, interview by Missla Libsekal and Ilpo Jauhiainen, ed. 1, 2010, pp. 112-123
Newhall, Edith, “Galleries: ‘Karmic Abstraction’ Brings A Tint of Turquoise to Renovated Bridgette Mayer Gallery,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 2011
Booker, Bobbi, “Exhibit Explores Art, Cyclic Memory,” The Philadelphia Tribune, November 6, 2011
Sobieski, Elizabeth, “FAPE: The Art of Diplomacy,” The Art Economist, vol. 1, no. 7, July 2011, pp. 40-44
Weaver, A.M., “The Global Africa Project,” Frieze, April 2011, p. 146
Koplos, Janet, “Odili Donald Odita: Jack Shainman,” Art in America, no. 3, March 2011, p. 156
Farrell, Laurie Ann, Wild is the Wind, The Savannah College of Art and Design, 2010
Perspectives 169: Odili Donald Odita, Houston: Contemporary Art Museum Houston, 2010
Vanhala, Jari-Pekka, Kati Kivinen, and Arja Miller, “ARS 11 Artists Visit Kiasma,” Kiasma, vol. 12, no. 47, 2010
Libsekal, Missla, “Interview with Odili Donald Odita,” Savvy: Art, Contemporary, Africa, 2010
Bourland, Ian, “Odili Donald Odita,” Artforum.com, November 2010
Hurst, Howard, “Odili Donald Odita,” ArtCards.cc, November 28, 2010
Allen, Emma and Andrew M. Goldstein, “Editor’s Pick: Odili Donald Odita, ‘Body & Space,’” Artinfo.com, November 17, 2010
Britt, Douglas, “Duality Shared Through Colorful Abstracts,” Houston Chronicle, April 28, 2010
“Africa On My Mind,” WSJ.com, February 26, 2010
Cochran, Rebecca Dimling, “Critics’ Pick: Wild is the Wind,” Artforum.com, January 2010
Mona Molarsky, “Wild is the Wind,” Flash Art International, vol. 43, no. 273, July-September 2010
Global Africa Project (exhibition catalogue), New York: Museum of Arts and Design, Prestel, 2010
Nickas, Robert, Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, New York: Phaidon, 2009, pp. 142-145
Enwezor, Okwui and Chika Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art since 1980, Bologna: Damiani, 2009, pp. 42-43, 124, 210, 216, 309, 328
jegede, dele, Encyclopedia of African American Artists: Artists of the Wallworks, Yerba Buena, CA: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2009, American Mosaic, Westport: Greenwood Press, 2009, pp. 173-176
Taubman, Lara, “Odili Donald Odita: Painting and the Abstract Truth,” The International Review of African American Art, vol. 22, no. 3, 2009, pp. 32-36
Bourland, Ian, “Interview: Odili Donald Odita,” Chicago Art Journal, vol. 19, 2009, pp. 80-93
Holmes, Pernilla, “How to Spend It – Art of Africa: Contemporary African Art Is on The Way Up,” Financial Times, November 7, 2009
Okeke-Agulu, Chika, “Odili Donald Odita’s Princeton University Mural,” Ofodunka: Art, Life, Politics, October 2009
Goldstein, Andrew, “Works By ‘More Diverse’ Artists for White House Walls,” The Art Newspaper, June 30, 2009
Susette S. Min, Senam Okudzeto, Martin Beck, Gareth James, Odili Donald Odita, Lucy Soutter, Jon Rubin, and Andrew E. Hershberger, “The Currency of Practice: Reclaiming Autonomy for the MFA,” Art Journal, vol. 68, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 40-57
Odita, Odili Donald, “Color Matters,” Glimpse: The Art & Science of Seeing, vol. 2, no. 3, March 2009, pp. 29-39
Martin, Marilyn, “Odili Donald Odita, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town,” Review” Art South Africa, vol. 7, no. 3, February 2009, pg. 89
Thornton, Sarah, Seven Days in the Art World, New York: W.W. Norton, 2008, p. 226
Epstein, Edward, “Odili Donald Odita,” Art Papers, November/December 2008, pp. 69-70
Katchka, Kinsey, “Exhibition Review: 52nd Venice Biennale,” African Arts, vol. 41, no. 3, Autumn 2008
Rice, Robin, “Fantastic Four,” Philadelphia City Paper, September 10, 2008
Sozanski, Edward, “Arts & Entertainment,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 14, 2008
Weaver, A.M., “The Seduction of Order,” Art South Africa, vol. 7, no. 1, August 2008, pp. 62-67
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation: 2007 Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, photography, Video, and Craft Media, New York: The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 2007
Bosland, Joost, Odili Donald Odita: Double Edge, Cape Town: Michael Sevenson, 2007
Thorson, Alice, “Africa’s New Look,” The Kansas City Star, December 9, 2007, pp. F1, F8
Pearce, Sara, “Arts & Entertainment: A Confluence of Color,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, November 11, 2007, pp. D1, D8
Farquharson, Alex, “Venice Biennial,” Frieze, no. 109, September 2007, pp. 128-130
Oguibe, Olu, “An Artist’s Biennial,” Frieze, no. 109, September 2007, p. 135
Kim, Christine Y., “52nd Venice Biennale 2007: Top Ten,” Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Summer 2007, p. 29
Cotter, Holland, “The Color Line,” The New York Times, July 27, 2007
52nd Venice Biennale Issue, L’Uomo Vogue, June 2007, p. 267
Newhall, Edith, “A Short Course in Abstract Art,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 2007
Oguibe, Olu, “Looking Back: the Most Significant Shows of 2006,” Frieze, no. 104, January/February 2007, pp. 14-15, 132, 137
Russ, Sabine, and Volk, Gregory, Surface Charge, Richmond: Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2006
Distant Relatives / Relative Distance, Cape Town: Michael Stevenson, 2006
McCloy, Maria, “Afro-Politan Art,” Tribute, November 2006
Knode, Marilu, “Holy Land: Diaspora and the Desert,” Art Papers, September/October 2006, p. 44
Cullum, Jerry, “No-Frills Cultural Comment,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 5, 2006
The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art 1950-2005, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2005
Maine, Stephen, “Odili Donald Odita at Florence Lynch,” Art in America, June/July 2005, pp. 183-184
Fox, Cathy, “Odili Donald Odita, Re-Envisioning Nigeria: Artist Limns Dreams, Nightmares of Native Nigeria,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 1, 2005
Malone, Micah, “Visualizing Diaspora/Constructing Self,” Art Papers, March/April 2005, p. 48
Schwendener, Martha, “Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, January 3, 2005, p. 14
Brown, Fritzie, and Carl, Katherine, eds., Flipside, New York: CEC Artslink, 2004
Volk, Gregory and Sabine Russ, Home Extension, Albany: State University of New York at Albany, 2004
Johnson, Ken, “Notes from Paradise,” The New York Times, December 17, 2004
Oguibe, Olu, “Artists on Artists: Odili Donald Odita by Olu Oguibe,” BOMB Magazine, no. 89, Fall 2004, pp. 8-9
Adams, Sarah, “Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,” African Arts, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 2004, p. 83
Thorson, Alice, “A Fiction of Authenticity,” Art News, vol. 103, no. 4, April 2004, p. 123
Carrier, David, “A Fiction of Authenticity,” Artforum, vol. 43, no. 7, March 2004, p. 188
Cooper, Ivy, “A Fiction of Authenticity,” Art Papers, vol. 28, no. 1, January/February 2004, p. 52
Fitzgerald, Shannon and Tumelo Mosaka, eds., A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, St. Louis: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2003
Odita, Odili Donald, and Carvalho, Denise, Specificity, New York: Riva Gallery, 2003
Hughes, Jeffrey, “A Fiction of Authenticity,” Flash Art International, vol. 36, no. 233, November/December 2003, p. 44
Bonetti, David, “Front Page: Contemporary Art’s New Home in St. Louis,” Art in America, November 2003, p. 49
Lloyd, Ann Wilson, “Two Different Museums Meet in St. Louis,” The New York Times, October 12, 2003, p. 33
Martin, Courtney J., “Black President,” Flash Art International, vol. 36, no. 232, October 2003, pp. 56-57
Schwarzman, Carol, “New York, New York,” Art Papers, vol. 27, no. 5, September/October 2003, p. 50
Pollack, Barbara, “The Afrobeat Generation,” The Village Voice, July 23, 2003
Cotter, Holland, “King of Music (and of All He Surveyed),” The New York Times, July 18, 2003
Fleey, Peter, “Black President,” Frieze, October 2003
Kerr, Merrily, “Spotlight: ‘Painting as Paradox,’” Flash Art, January/February 2003, p. 107
Koirala, Snigdha, “Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art,” BOMB Magazine, October 1, 2003
Charley 01, edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick, Dijon, France: Les Presses du Réel, 2002 Murray, Derek, “New York Scene,” The International Review of African American Art, vol. 18, no. 2, 2002, pp. 54-56
“Painting as Paradox,” Tema Celeste, vol. 19, no. 94, November/December 2002, p.111
Weinberg, Michelle, “MAM,” Tema Celeste, vol. 19, no. 94, November/December 2002, p. 88
Moreno, Gean, “Odili Donald Odita at Miami Art Museum,” Flash Art International, vol. 34, no. 226, October 2002
Cotter, Holland, “The New Season / Art,” The New York Times, September 8, 2002
Turner, Elisa, “Beyond the Abstract,” Miami Herald, September 8, 2002
Volk, Gregory, “Odili Donald Odita at Florence Lynch and Riva,” Art in America, May 2002, pp. 147-148
Wendland, Johannes, “Schwarz ist nicht gleich schwarz Hier muß fühlen, wen die Oberfläche täuscht: Die Acrylbilder des Malers Odili Donald Odita,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 3, 2002
Baer-Bogenschutz, Dorothee, “Frankfurter Rundschau,” Kulturspiegel, February 27, 2002
Scheyerer, Nicole, “Kunst Kurz,” Falter, no. 7, February 13, 2002
Thoss, Michael M. “Afro-American Postmodernism,” exhibition introductory statement, Berlin, March 2002
Here & Now, with texts by Maria Anna Potocka and Lilly Wei, Białystok: Galeria Arsenał, 2001
Frizzell, Deborah, “Odili Donald Odita,” NY Arts, December 2001, pp. 10-11
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review: Odili Donald Odita,” The New York Times, November 16, 2001, p. E32
Pollack, Barbara, “The Newest Avant-Garde,” Art News, vol. 100, no. 4, April 2001, pp. 124-129
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