Photo by Casey Horsfield.
“I aim to trouble the assumptions baked into the beliefs and technologies that mediate our existences. I aim to make sense of the world, so that we can remake it differently.”
Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha creates work that questions and exposes the contradictory logics of technological progress. Through print, code, data, video, installation, and archival media, Ọnụọha offers new orientations for making sense of the seeming absences that define systems of labor, ecology, and relations.
Ọnụọha's recent solo exhibitions include bitforms gallery and Forest City Gallery. Her work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, La Gaitê Lyrique, Transmediale Festival, The Photographers Gallery, and NEON among others. Her public art engagements have been supported by Akademie der Kunst, Le Centre Pompidou, the Royal College of Art, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Princeton University.
Ọnụọha earned her MPS from NYU Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she has taught as Assistant Professor. She is a Creative Capital and Fulbright National Geographic grantee. Ọnụọha is also the co-founder of A People's Guide To Tech, an artist-led organization that makes educational guides and workshops about emerging technology.
Donor -This award was generously supported by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
This artist page was last updated on: 08.14.2024
The Library of Missing Datasets by Mimi Ọnụọha.
Photo by Brandon Schulman.
“Making audacious bets on the future of technology: Mimi Ọnụọha ’11.”
Video courtesy Princeton University.
The Cloth In The Cable + These Networks In Our Skin by Mimi Ọnụọha.
Photo courtesy of Gropius Bau.