Toyin Ojih Odutola

🔳Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) is a visual artist from Nigeria.

Ojih Odutola is best known for her self-portrait drawings, entirely or primarily done in black pen ink. Her more recent work has expanded to include charcoal, pastel, and pencil.

Through black ballpoint pen ink, Toyin Odutola’s drawings question physical and sociopolitical identities as they pertain to skin color. 

Treating skin as topography, she layers ink as a means of mapping a person’s subjective, individual geography built from real-life experiences.

Her interest in surface qualities stems from the history of African textiles, which inspires the artist’s rich textures on flat planes.

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