Onome Daniella Olotu, current Cornell University MFA student, was born in 1993 in Lagos, Nigeria. She studied art (Painting Major) at the University of Benin. After graduation, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the National Gallery of Art, Abuja, Curatorial Assistant for the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Lagos, and later as an Art Instructor, before taking on full time studio practice at the Universal Studios of Art, Lagos in 2018. Working predominantly in charcoal and acrylics, her work engages personal family and institutional archives to respond to social and political events. Her works have been exhibited across Nigeria, Canada at the exhibition Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots at the Museum of Anthropology, The University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada, Arts Council of Princeton and recently, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.
She currently lives, schools and works between New York, Princeton and Lagos, Nigeria.
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