Onome Daniella Olotu (b. 1993, Lagos) is an MFA candidate in Creative Visual Arts at Cornell University. Her multidisciplinary practice engages personal, family, and institutional archives to explore themes of social history, identity, and memory.
Working primarily in acrylic painting and printmaking—recently expanded to include ceramics—Olotu’s work interrogates the construction and erasure of narratives. Her Postcard Series draws on archival photographs and documents to reimagine both pasts and possible futures, while her Mask Series, inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness, addresses body dysmorphia and the politics of visibility through layered compositions.
Her work has been exhibited across Nigeria and North America, including Being at Home in Princeton at the James Hall Memorial Gallery, Princeton University; Traversing Nostalgia at the Arts Council of Princeton; and Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. She has also participated in group exhibitions at Cornell University.
Olotu’s works are held in the collections of the Princeton Municipality and Princeton University, as well as in several private collections. She lives and works between Ithaca, Princeton, and Lagos.
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Onome Daniella Olotu (b. 1993, Lagos) is an MFA candidate in Creative Visual Arts at Cornell University. Her multidisciplinary practice engages personal, family, and institutional archives to explore themes of social history, identity, and memory.
Working primarily in acrylic painting and printmaking—recently expanded to include ceramics—Olotu’s work interrogates the construction and erasure of narratives. Her Postcard Series draws on archival photographs and documents to reimagine both pasts and possible futures, while her Mask Series, inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness, addresses body dysmorphia and the politics of visibility through layered compositions.
Her work has been exhibited across Nigeria and North America, including Being at Home in Princeton at the James Hall Memorial Gallery, Princeton University; Traversing Nostalgia at the Arts Council of Princeton; and Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. She has also participated in group exhibitions at Cornell University.
Olotu’s works are held in the collections of the Princeton Municipality and Princeton University, as well as in several private collections. She lives and works between Ithaca, Princeton, and Lagos.
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