Toyin Odutola
Toyin Odutola
Toyin Ojih Odutolais an artist who was born in Ife, Nigeria. She received a BA in Studio Art and Communications from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2008. She also received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2012...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionArtist
CountryNigeria
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
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The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.