biography / bibliography
TOYIN ODUTOLA
Born in Nigeria, 1985
EDUCATION
2012
MFA, California College of the Arts
2008
BA in Studio Art and Communications, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2007
Norfolk Summer Residency for Music & Art, Yale University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
My Country Has No Name,Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, May 16–June 29, 2013.
2011
Toyin Odutola: (MAPS),Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, May 26–June 25, 2011.
2008
Toyin Odutola: A Colonized Mind, University Center Gallery, Huntsvillle, Alabama
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, March 24–August 25, 2013.
The Moment for Ink, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, California, February 23–March 23, 2013.
Singular Masses: An Examination of Racial Identity, Memphis College of Art, Hyde Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, January 23–March 9, 2013.
Black Hair: Black Identity, Iona College Chapman Gallery, New Rochelle, New York, January 20–February 21, 2013.
2012–2013
The Progress of Love, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, December 1, 2012–March 17, 2013.
Fore and Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, November 11, 2012–March 10, 2013.
2012
Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line, UB Art Galleries, University at Buffalo, September 20–December 8, 2012.
Afro: Black Identity in America and Brazil, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 1–August 31, 2012.
2011
Geoffrey Chadsey, Toyin Odutola and Artifacts from Nagaland, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, October 13–November 12, 2011.
Frontrunners: The San Francisco Foundation 2011 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, August 17–September 16, 2011.
The Black Portrait, Rush Gallery, New York, March 31–May 21, 2011. Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha L. Logan.
Ουροβόρος | Ouroboros: An Exhibition & Reading, California College of the Arts Writer's Studio, San Francisco. Curated by Toyin Odutola and Nick Johnson.
Selections on View, Contemporary Galleries of Birmingham Museum, Alabama
2010
Common Ground, ARTLAB33 / Art Space, Miami. Curated by Onajide Shabaka.
2008
Flesh and Bone: Mixed Media Exhibition of Bodies and Nature, Madrone Lounge, San Francisco. Curated by Leila Fakouri.
Misc. Womanhood, Ori: Center for African Diasporic Culture, Oakland, California. Curated by Muinat Kemi Amin)
UAHuntsville Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Huntsville, Alabama
Panoply Festival of Arts, Huntsville City Council for the Arts, Huntsville, Alabama
2007
Yale/Norfolk Summer Art Program Student Exhibition, Norfolk, Connecticut
Huntsville City Summer Art Stroll, Huntsville, Alabama
2006
UAHuntsville Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Huntsville, Alabama
AWARDS & GRANTS
2011
Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Award
2008
Erzulie Veasey Johnson Painting & Drawing Award, UAHuntsville
2007
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship Grant, Yale/Norfolk
RESIDENCIES
2012
Tamarind Institute, New Mexico
Flying Horse Editions, College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Central Florida
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.