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ArchiveBorn 1966 in Enugu (Nigeria)
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). 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). Odita lives and works in Philadelphia.
 Odili Odita, Here and There, Acrylic on canvas, 228.5 x 178cm, 2008. |
