Odili Donald Odita
BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Tallahassee – USA/ *Nigeria 1966 Brought up in Ohio. Currently, he is Associate Professor of painting at Florida State University. Odita is a painter who has participated in numberous exhibitions in Europe and the U. S., an art writer and curator. He is contributing editor to ”NKA, Journal of Contemporary African Art”, and producer of the online magazine ”Connect”. EDUCATION ........................... 1990 M. F. A. Bennington College, VT 1998 ART/OMI International Artist Residency, July 1998 1988 B. F. A. (with Distinction) Ohio State Univ.; Excellence in the Arts SOLO EXHIBITIONS ........................... 2002 Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Frankfurt & Berlin, Germany The Fela Project, Queens Museum of Art, NYC Traveling exhibition, other venues to be announced, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker; cat. "Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad", Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis. Curated by Shannon Fitzgerald & Tumelo Mosaka; cat. 2001 Art Statements with Florence Lynch Gallery, Art Miami/Basel, Miami, FL "LIFE", Folin/Riva Gallery, New York, NY, Paintings & Drawings, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY cat. with an interview by Christine Y. Kim & essays by Olu Oguibe "Here And Now", Zacheta National Gall., Warsaw & Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland "Material and Matter", The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY, curated by Thelma Golden & Christine Y. Kim "Chelsea Rising", Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, curated by David Rubin; cat. "Pleasures of Sight and States of Being: Radical Abstract Painting", Museum of Fine Arts, FSU, and The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL, curated by Dr. Roald Nasgaard; cat. 2000 "Transfers/Odyssey", Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, Switzerland, curated by Dorothea Strauss Kjbuh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, represented by Florence Lynch Gallery "Out of America", Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Frankfurt & Berlin, Germany "NEW CAPITAL", DeChiara/Stewart, New York, NY, curated by Franklin Sirmans "Five Continents & One City", 3rd International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City, Africa Section, curated by Olu Oguibe; cat. "Passport," Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco, California Hofstra University, Alex Rosenberg Art Gallery, Calkins Hall, NY "Transcending The Norm And Some", New Jersey City University, Lemmerman Gallery, NJ 1999 "Zeitwenden: Ausblick Rückblick - (Jet Lag Experiment)", Museum of Modern Art, Bonn, and Museum of Modern Art, Vienna "COLOR THEORY", Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY "4X4", Alexandre de Folin Gallery, New York, NY "IN-VISIBLE: Abstractions & Narratives", Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland "IDEOSCAPE", Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, curated by Shelly Bancroft & Edmund Barry Gaither. "Present Continuous", Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY, curated by Carl Hazlewood and Patricia A. Patton "Outside Edge: A Survey", Université de Paris 1, Panthéon - La Sorbonne, Paris, France "VANISHING POINT", Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Margaret Evangeline. "You Are Here", Matrix Art Project (MAP), New York, NY, curated by Jesus Polanco. "The Invisible Empire", Gallery 101, Ottawa-Ontario, Canada. "PARADISE 8 (Permanent Resident / Home And The World)", Curatorial Project, Jan.-April 1999; Exit Art, New York, NY BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Barbara Pollack, "The Newest Avant-Garde", Art News, Vol. 100, No. 4, April 2001, pp. 124-129. Holland Cotter, "Material and Matter", New York Times, Friday, March 9, 2001. Ariella Budick, "No Matter What They Use, It's a Work of Art", Newsday, Friday, Feb. 9, 2001. Franklin Sirmans, "Material and Matter", Time Out New York, Art Section, March 1-8, 2001, Issue No. 284. Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros, "Five Continents & One City", Art Nexus, No. 39, Feb.-Apr. 2001, pp. 108-110. Steven Vincent, "The Flat Pack", Art & Auction, Vol. 23, No. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 90-97. Gerhard Mack, "Vom Verlust des Fremden" (Transfers/Odyssey), Tagblatt, St. Gallen, Oct. 24, 2000, p. 21. Denise Carvalho, "Color Theory", NKA, Journal of Contemporary African Art, No. 11/12, Fall/Winter 2000, pp. 22-23. Sylvie Fortin, "The Invisible Empire", NKA, Journal of Contemporary African Art, No. 11/12, Fall/Winter 2000, pp. 18-21. Calvin Reid, "How We Got To Now", The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2000, p. 27 (16-31). Horace Brockington, "After Representation", The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2000, p. 52 (42-52). Barry Schwabsky, "Transcending the Norm and Some", New York Times, On the Towns, Jan. 23, 2000. Lauri Firstenberg, "African Experiences", Flash Art International, Vol. 33, No. 210, Jan-Feb. 2000, pp. 68-70. Nadine Kibanda, "Color Theory", Flash Art Magazine, <www.flashartmagazine.com/exclusive/odita.html> Neyda Martinez, "Color Theory", POSTMEDIA, <http://www.oasinet.com/postmedia/art/odita.htm> Denise Carlvalho, "At Arsenal", Flash Art International, Vol. 32, No. 209, Nov.-Dec. 1999, p. 63. "At the Galleries", Flash Art International, Vol. 32, No. 209, Nov.-Dec. 1999, p. 60. Max Henry, "Color Theory", ARTNET.COM, <http://artnet.com/magazine/reviews/henry/henry> Franklin Sirmans, "Color Theory", Time Out New York, Art Section, Nov. 4-11, 1999, Issue No. 215, p. 68. Michael Rush, "Color Theory", Review Magazine, Nov. 1, 1999, pp. 14-15. Lilly Wei, "IN-VISIBLE", Exhibition Essay, September 1999. Franklin Sirmans, "Visual Arts Roundtable", The ILMA - List, April/May 1999, pp. 12-15. Carl Hazlewood, "Crossing Lines", Art Papers Magazine, May/June 1999, pp. 46-47. Michael Rush, "Vanishing Point at Cynthia Broan", Review Magazine, April 1, 1999, pp. 112-113. Franklin Sirmans, "Empty Signifiers and the Loaded Void", Exhibition Essay (The Invisible Empire), Jan. 1999. Carl Hazlewood, "Crossing Lines", POSTMEDIA (www), January 1999. Gordon Haist, "The Familiar and the Unthought" (REALLY), Elenchus: The Journal of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry, Vol. II, Issue I, 1997, pp. 8-9. International Art Tour: Johannesburg Biennial, People Page (www), The New School, 1997. Carl Hazlewood, "Interior-Life Contests Conservatism", Flash Art International, Vol. 30, No. 197, Nov.-Dec. 1997, p. 57. "At The Galleries: RUSH Arts", Flash Art Internat., Vol. 30, No. 196, Oct. 1997, p. 57. Okwui Enwezor, "Neglected Artform or Poor Relation?", Contemporary South African Art: The Gencor Collection, 1997, pp. 65-79. Susan Canning, "Studio View;" New Art Examiner, April 1997, p. 40. "Artist Spotlight;" aRude Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 5, Fall 1996, p. 14. Olu Oguibe, "Guest of the Month", Dr. Olu Oguibe homepage, (www), Nov. 1996. Okwui Enwezor & Octavio Zaya, "Moving-In", Flash Art International, Vol. 29, No. 186, Jan.-Febr. 1996, pp. 84-89. Geoffrey Jacques, "GOTCHA!", Cover Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, Holiday Issue, 1996. "GOTCHA!", Waterfront Week, Vol. 5, No. 19, Sept. 21-Oct. 4, 1995. Okwui Enwezor, "A Continuously Elaborated Task", Modern Life, 1995. Vivien Raynor, "Many Vantage Points on Modern Life", New York Times, Nov. 5,1995. Eileen Watkins, "Humanity in High-Tech World", The Sunday Star Ledger, Nov. 5, 1995. Roberta Smith, "Other Rooms", New York Times, Friday, July 28, 1995. Kim Levin, "Other Rooms", The Village Voice, July 1995. Portfolio Page; A Gathering of the TRIBES, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1994. Dan Cameron, "The Dowager Queen", FIAR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE - Art Under 30, Milan, Rome, Paris, London, Los Angeles, New York, 1991-1993; cat. for travelling exhibition |
