Mimi Ọnụọha
1989–
Mimi Ọnụọha (b. 1989; Parma, Italy) is a Nigerian American artist creating work about a world made to fit the form of data. By foregrounding absence and removal, her multimedia practice uses print, code, installation, and video to make sense of the power dynamics that result in disenfranchised communities' different relationships to systems that are digital, cultural, historical, and ecological.
Ọnụọha has been in residence at Studio XX, Montreal; Data and Society Research Institute, New York; the Royal College of Art, London; Eyebeam, New York; and Arthouse Foundation, Nigeria. Ọnụọha’s work has been featured at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Shanghai; La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Gropius Bau, Berlin; the Photographers’ Gallery, London; and the Atlanta Contemporary, among others. Ọnụọha is a Creative Capital and Fulbright–National Geographic grantee. She is also the cofounder of “A People’s Guide to Tech,” an artist-led organization that makes educational guides and workshops about emerging technology.
Exhibitions & projects
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