A Longer Look | Abe Odedina | Diane Rosenstein Gallery

Abe Odedina (Nigeria, b. 1960) is a painter who lives and works between London and Salvador, Brazil. Born in Ibadan, Odedina received early training as an architect in England. In 2008, Odedina discovered the ceremonial fair of Candomblé in Salvador, the former Brazilian capital and center of Afro-Brazilian culture. “I reconnected with the Orishas, who were cast aside in Nigeria in the project of modernism.”

Abe Odedina's paintings are included in When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, S. Africa (2022-2023); and Talisman in The Age of Difference, curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE (2018), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. He has received solo exhibitions with Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles; Ed Cross Fine Art, London; and Art X Lagos. His paintings are in the collection of Jorge Pérez, Miami; Serge Tiroche/Africa First, Tel Aviv; Beth Rudin DeWoody; West Palm Beach; La Fab/La Collecion d’Agnès b., Paris; and the British Government Art Collection, among others. A monograph was published by Ed Cross Books, in London (2020).