Ehiko Odeh 


Lives and works in Toronto, Canada 
b.1999



EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2016 - 2021

OCAD University - Toronto, ON


2015 - 2016

Columbia International College, Hamilton, ON


2000 - 2015

Greensprings School, Lagos, Nigeria



PROFFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE 

2024

The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery @ York University [Gallery Attendant]


O’OJEH After School Arts Program @ArtHeart- Daniels Spectrum Cultural Hub [ Arts Facilitator]


City of Toronto - George Street Revitalization Project Public Art Commission [ Assistant Artist]

The Corperation of The City of Mississauga - CMS/Recreation & Culture Division [ Visual Arts Instructor]

Vibe Arts For Children & Youth [ Arts Educator]


2023

HAVANA CLUB: Artist In Residence Highlight, Toronto, ON


Astonishing Paper Fantasia with Hermès Canada and Geoffrey Pithon, Toronto, ON

Kensington Market Balwin Mural, A Future Without Oppression, Toronto, ON

Featured in  fufu film, Directed by Omolola Jao - Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox. [Role: Set Design - Artwork]

 it’s real, I watched it happen, Directed by Isabel Okoro - Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON [Role:  Set Design]


2022


Conlins Road Cycle Track Project - Street Art Toronto, Toronto, ON

 

SELECTED SOLO/GROUP EXHIBITIONS



July 2026, Upcoming Solo Exhibition - Hair Memories @ Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON


2024 

 JAYU Festival of the Arts, Group Exhibition @ 401 Richmond, Toronto, ON

 

Toronto food stories @ 401 Richmond, Toronto, ON


Emphemera, Group Exhibition @ Small Arms Inspection Building,  Mississauga, ON 


Unfixed, Outreach Group Exhibition, @ Gallery 44  Toronto, ON


Future without oppression, Group exhibition @ Worth Gallery, Toronto, ON

With Love, Auction & Group Exhibition with Peggy Social Marketplace, Toronto, ON

Trajectories Of Now, Group Exhibition @ Bodyshop Studios, Toronto, ON

parts of myself yet to experience, Solo Exhibition @ The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON


Lite Brite: Worlds of Wonder Immersive Group Exhibition @ Illuminarium, Toronto, ON


The Artist Project - Untapped Section @ Better Living Centre, Toronto, ON


Artist Talk - Archiving Culture Through Hair and Beauty in Black Canadian Communities with Melissa J. Nelson, Toronto, ON


Golden Beauty Supply Installation @ DesignTO Festival, Toronto, ON

Girl Dinner Emerging Artist Group Exhibition @ ABBOZZO Gallery, Toronto, ON

2023


Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, Solo Exhibition @ Richmond Hill (Central Branch) Public Library, Richmond Hill, ON

Live Edge, Duo Exhibition @ Samara Contemporary, Toronto, ON

Our Hair Holds Memories, Solo Exhibition Represented by BAND Gallery @ 401 Richmond, Toronto, ON

SANKOFA Art Showcase @itsOKWorld, Toronto, ON

BLACKPOP!  Group Exhibition @ Stackt Market, Toronto, ON

METIVIER TALKS | BAND OFFSITE: EHIKO ODEH, MOSES SALIHOU, AND KHALID ROMAIN, Toronto, ON

BAND OFFSITE, Group Exhibition @ Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON

DIASPORAS, Group Exhibition, @ THE MUSEUM, Kitchener, Ontario, ON

Unconnected Yet, Group Exhibition @ The Academy of Fine Arts,  Kolkata, India

Longwinter, Group Exhibition @ The Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON


2022


Live painting @ Nuit Blanche with localglobal @ COLD TEA, Toronto, ON

Realised, Reimagined, Group Exhibition with Foodshare Toronto @ Flemo Farm, North York, ON

Floating Gallery, Group Exhibition @ Stackt market, Toronto, ON

Between Starshine & Clay, Black History Month Digital Group Exhibition  @ Yonge x Dundas Square, Toronto, ON

The Elements of Humanity, Solo Exhibition @ MCA Projects, York, ON

2021


The Duality of Life and Death, Solo Window Exhibition@ Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON

Workman Arts 20th Anniversary - BEING SCENE,  Group Exhibition, Toronto, ON

Gladstone House Art Program @ Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

Black Women Paint Baldwin Mural - A Future Without Oppression @ Kensington Market, Toronto, ON

2020


Drawing & Painting Class of 2020 GradEx105, Group Exhibition @ Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON

2019


 Ochu’lu O’Oya (Celebrating Ceremony) Solo Exhibition @ BAND Gallery, Toronto, ON

2018


24 Hrs of Blackness, Group Exhibition @ ADA Slaight Galleries, Toronto, ON

2017


I SEE U, Group Exhibition @ Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON

Dirty Talk, Group Exhibition  011 @ Smiling Buddha, Torornto, ON

2016


Black Creators Month, Group Exhibition @ OCAD University, Toronto, ON


WORKSHOPS


2024

O’OJEH After School Arts Program @ArtHeart- Daniels Spectrum Cultural Hub


Art Salon - Collage Workshop @ SKETCH, Toronto, ON


Hair Collage Workshop @ Richmond Hill Public Library Central Branch, Richmond Hill, ON


Painting Workshop for  Family Day @ Montgomery’s Inn, Etobicoke, ON


2023
 

Collage Workshop - Black Women In MotionCrystals & Sage Wellness Initiative @ SKETCH,  Toronto, ON


Paper Based Workshop @ JANGILOVA Art Exhibition by Willyverse, Toronto, ON

Mindful Collage Workshop with Issues magazine & The SAD Collective @ THE COMBINE, Toronto, ON

55 & Better Memory Collage workshop for  Seniors @ THEMUSEUM Kitchener, ON

Botanical Paint Night Workshop @ The Toronto Music Garden, Toronto, ON


2022


The Collage Workshop @ MCA Gallery, York, ON


Bridgeton Paint Night Workshop @ The Toronto Music Garden, Toronto, ON


2021

Knowing Histories, Building Futures with NIA centre in partnership with Gardiner Museum’s Community Art Space Initiative, Toronto, ON


2019


Mickalene Thomas Artist Critiques @ OCAD University, Toronto, ON


2018

Groundings (Symposium to raise BIPOC Poets) @ OCAD U Learning Zone, Toronto, ON

Blessed Hands Hair Salon Installation @ OCAD University, Toronto, ON


2017

Art Vs Alt (A Conference on Culture and Politics) @ Steelworkers' Hall, Toronto, ON

Writing in Dangerous Times: Survival, Resistance, Joy @ OCAD U Learning Zone, Toronto, ON

Creative Writing Workshop @ Scarborough Alternative HighSchool, Toronto, ON


COMMISSIONS



2024

Lite Brite: Worlds of Wonder Immersive Group Exhibition @ Illuminarium, Toronto, ON


2022

Mural Routes Digital Background, Toronto, ON 


Realised, Reimagined, Foodshare, Toronto, ON

Planter Mural @ Kensington Market, Toronto, ON

Ici bon café - Nilecoffeeclub, Toronto, ON

2021


Book Cover  for Make The World New by Lillian Allen, Toronto, ON

Recipient - The Gladstone House Art Project @ Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

Kensington Market Street Mural, A Future Without Oppression, Toronto, ON 


Winter Promotional Image - SKETCH @ ARTSCAPE YOUNGPLACE, Toronto, ON



GRANTS/CERTIFICATES


2023


Spring Grant
Recipient

Exhibition Assistance Grant Recipient - Ontario Arts Council

Certificate of Recognition from MP of Richmond Hill & Markham.




ARTIST- IN - RESIDENCE


2024

Artist-In-Residence @ Living Arts Centre Mississauga, ON 

OUTREACH Darkroom Photography Program In partnership with nia centre & gallery 44, Toronto, ON


2023


ReAct, ReCreate, ReVision: Youth Arts Advocacy for Equitable Cultural Policy, Artist Residence, Toronto, ON

Artist-In-Residence @ Living Arts Centre Mississauga, ON

Foodshare Toronto
- Food Stories, Toronto, ON



2022


Steps Public Art Residency, Toronto, ON




COLLECTIONS



Wedge Curatorial Projects - The Wedge Collection

The Gladstone House



PODCASTS & PRESS


CBC ARTS - Struggling through art school, Ehiko Odeh was told to make art that felt like home. It changed her career


METIVIER TALKS | BAND OFFSITE: EHIKO ODEH, MOSES SALIHOU, AND KHALID ROMAIN.


Ehiko Odeh: If You Know You Know.


Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow ~ an exhibit at the Central Library.


Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Richmond Hill library exhibit examines Black community's complicated relationship with often-harmful hair care products.


BAND Offsite Exhibition Showcases Black Canadian art.


Golden Beauty Supply.


OPALOMA: An Interview with Ehiko Odeh x DesignTO24.

OPLAMA: Exhibition Review. 


Our Hair Holds Memories.


Ehiko Odeh | Exhibition Tour.


Winter 2024 Exhibitions at Richmond Hill Public Library. - AKIMBO


THEMUSEUM HOSTS EXHIBITION OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN DIASPORA ART.


i dream of sovereignty.


DIGITAL BACKGROUNDS BY MURAL ARTISTS.

 

Moulding Stories with Clay by Nia Centre.  

Ehiko Odeh by adé abegunde for re: magazine.

In Conversation With Ehiko Odeh | Black GradEx 2021 | Drawing and Painting | OCAD University.

OCADU Exhibition Catalogue 2020 - Propeller Art Gallery.

To be young, gifted, and Black: An interview with Ehiko Odeh.


Ehiko Odeh | Ochu’lu O’oya - Celebrating Ceremony.