Biography

 Onome Daniella Olotu (b. 1993, Lagos, Nigeria) is an MFA candidate in Creative Visual Arts at Cornell University whose multidisciplinary practice includes personal, family, and institutional archives that explore social history, identity, and memory. 

Working primarily in acrylics and printmaking, recently expanded by ceramics, her “Postcard Series” draws on archival photographs and documents to re-imagine the past and futures that reckon with erasure, while her “Mask Series,” inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s double consciousness, confronts body dysmorphia and the politics of visibility through layers.

Olotu’s works have recently been shown across Nigeria and North America including Being at Home in Princeton, James Hall Memorial Gallery, Princeton University, Tranversing Nostalgia, Arts Council of Princeton, Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia; and other group exhibitions at Cornell University. Her works are in the collection of the Princeton Municipality and the ProCES, Princeton University and several private collections. 

She lives and works between Ithaca, Princeton and Lagos.