Ehiko Odeh

Winner Challenge

2023

Ehiko Odeh is a multidisciplinary artist from Lagos, Nigeria, currently based in Toronto, Canada. With a creative journey spanning over seven years, her practice is rooted in spirituality and nourished by the essence of play. Through painting, textiles, performance, drawing, and installation, Ehiko explores themes such as decolonization, coiffure, ethnobotany, memory, and play, often working with found or upcycled materials that honor Nigerian craftsmanship and tradition.

A graduate of OCAD University (BFA, 2021) with a minor in Creative Writing, Ehiko has exhibited in Lagos, Kolkata, and Toronto. Her first solo exhibition in Canada was presented by BAND (Black Artist Network in Dialogue) in 2019. Among her notable projects are commissions for the Gladstone Hotel House Art Program, the Realised–Reimagined Food Justice exhibition with Foodshare Toronto, and the cover art for Lillian Allen’s book Make The World New. Her work is part of the Wedge Gallery collection curated by Dr. Kenneth Montague.

Statement

Ehiko Odeh’s artistic research unfolds as a journey through Afro-Indigenous practices and the duality that governs all existence: life and death, memory and forgetting, origin and transformation. In her collages and multimedia works, visual and textile fragments are recomposed into symbolic portals—spaces where tradition and imagination intertwine.

Her work reflects on the ancestral bonds connecting past, present, and future, transforming materials into a poetic language of belonging, resilience, and renewal. Through vivid color and contrast, Ehiko evokes the vital rhythm that animates every natural cycle, celebrating the spirituality and heritage of Afro-descendant cultures. Each work becomes both a remembrance and a rebirth—an invitation to recognize the invisible continuity that unites every life to its lineage.

Why invest in...

Investing in a young artist like Ehiko Odeh means supporting a voice that bridges ancestral wisdom and contemporary experimentation. Her work embodies a rare balance between cultural depth and formal innovation, drawing from Afro-Indigenous traditions to create visual narratives that speak to identity, memory, and transformation.

Ehiko’s multidisciplinary practice—spanning painting, textiles, and performance—resonates with current global discourses on decolonization, sustainability, and the recovery of cultural heritage. Her ability to transform recycled materials into poetic, visionary compositions positions her among the new generation of artists redefining the language of contemporary art.

As her presence grows across international exhibitions and collections, investing in her work today is both an act of cultural awareness and a forward-looking gesture toward the future of art.

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