Upon entering Toyin Ojih Odutola‘s recently opened show at the Whitney Museum, visitors see a letter by the artist posted on the wall, written in the persona of the “Deputy Private Secretary” for two ...

Toyin Ojih Odutola has experienced a star-making few years, with back-to-back major solo shows staged around the world. Now at the height of her powers, Ojih Odutola is presenting two major solo ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- It began with a ballpoint pen, a mild obsession with a character from "The Lion King" and a desire for unconventional portraits. Nigerian-born Toyin Odutola, a former student at ...

Toyin Ojih Odutola, “To See and To Know; Future Lovers from A Countervailing Theory” (2019) (© Toyin Ojih Odutola, all images courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, unless otherwise ...

In Ojih Odutola's conception of the world, its inhabitants never fell — not from divine grace, not from political autonomy, and certainly not from self-regard. Ojih Odutola’s drawings, made of ...

“I love freedom. I love that my works are autonomous” says Nigerian born artist, Toyin Ojih Odutola. In “Ilé Oriaku,” currently on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, Ojih Odutola invites ...

Three years ago, the Nigerian-born artist Toyin Ojih Odutola had just flown to South Africa from New York, where she now lives, when she turned on her phone. So many ­messages flooded her screen, she ...

In the summer of 2016, the poet Claudia Rankine published an essay in Aperture magazine about drawings made by the artist Toyin Ojih Odutola. Ojih Odutola was born in Nigeria, immigrated to the States ...

Toyin Ojih Odutola was born in Nigeria but moved to the U.S. as a child. When her classmates hesitated to interact with her “otherness,” Toyin turned to drawing as an alternate world in which to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about New York's art gallery system and museum structure. Nigerian-born and New York-based artist Toyin Ojih Odutola takes ...