Odun Orimolade is an artist, academic, curator, and cultural practitioner whose practice embraces experimental and trans-disciplinary approaches. Her work addresses concepts of space, overlapping realities, and the intangible, leading to investigations of human behavioral tendencies, orientation, and interaction.
Odun Orimolade PhD is an alumnus of the Yaba College of Technology and the University of South Africa. She lectures in the Fine Art Department at Yaba College of Technology. She currently serves as the Curatorial Director of the Yaba Art Museum. Orimolade is also a Research Fellow of the College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa, she is strongly committed to collaborations for creative development.
Orimolade is a member of several professional bodies and has presented at several exhibition spaces such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil; WORM Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands; MOCADA Museum, New York, US; Nubuke Foundation Accra, Ghana; Lilith Performance Studio, Sweden; NIROX Foundation, South Africa; Bern Performance Festival, Switzerland; Jægersborg Dyrehave Forest Park Nature Reserve, Denmark; Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Denmark; NLH Space, Denmark; Korong Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa; Goethe Institute Salvador-Bahia, Brasil; and Out of Site, Chicago, USA. She has also participated in several artist residencies, recently at the Vila Sul Goethe Institute Salvador Bahia, Brazil in with support of the KFW Stiftung Foundation, Germany.