Odili Donald Odita

Six-color lithograph on Coventry Rag
17 x 17 in (43.18 x 43.18 cm)
Edition of 25, 7 AP, 3 PP, 1 BAT, 1 Archive
Signed and numbered by the artist
Printed by Flying Horse Editions/UCF

Odili Donald Odita was born in Engu, Nigeria in 1966 and he lives and works in Philadelphia. He is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. He is best known for his large-scale paintings and site-responsive installations with kaleidoscopic patterns and vibrant hues, which he uses to reflect the human condition.

He earned his BA with Distinction from Ohio State University in 1988 and his MFA from Bennington College in 1990. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia (2020); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2019); and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2015). Notable group exhibitions include New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021); Generations: A History of Black and Abstract Art, Baltimore Museum of Art (2019); How We See: Materiality of Color, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (2019); Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City, Cleveland (2018); Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans (2017); Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy (2007).

Odili Donald Odita was a Resident Faculty Artist in 2015.