bios and images

full bio (200 words)

Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha (b. 1989, Italy) creates work that questions and exposes the contradictory logics of technological progress. Through print, code, data, video, installation, and archival media, Ọnụọha offers new orientations for making sense of the seeming absences that define systems of labor, ecology and relations.

Ọnụọha's solo exhibition credits include Secession (Austria), Victoria and Albert Musuem (UK), and bitforms Gallery (USA). Her work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art (USA), the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (AUS), Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (China), La Gaitê Lyrique (France), Gropius Bau (Germany), The Photographers Gallery (UK), and Espaço Cultural Futuros Arte e Tecnologia (Brazil) among others. Her public art engagements have been supported by Akademie der Kunst (Germany), Le Centre Pompidou (France) the Royal College of Art (UK), the Rockefeller Foundation (USA), and Princeton University (USA).

Ọnụọha earned her MPS from NYU Tisch's Interactice Telecommunications Program, where she has taught as an Assistant Professor. She is a Creative Capital and Fulbright-National Geographic grantee. She is also the Co-founder of A People's Guide To Tech, an artist-led organization that makes educational guides and workshops about emerging technology.

short bio (~50 words)

Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha (b. 1989) creates work questioning technological progress through print, code, data, video, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, V&A, and Secession, among others. A United States Artist Fellow and Creative Capital grantee, she co-founded A People's Guide To Tech.

medium bio (~130 words)

Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha's work deploys choice moments of seeming absence to question and expose the contradictory logics of technological progress. Through print, code, data, video, installation, and archival media, Ọnụọha offers new orientations for making sense of the gaps that define systems of labor, ecology and relations.

Ọnụọha's solo exhibitions include Secession (Austria), Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), and bitforms gallery (USA). Her work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art, Gropius Bau, La Gaîté Lyrique, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, among others. A United States Artist Fellow and Creative Capital grantee, she has taught full-time at Bennington College, NYU Tisch ITP and co-founded A People's Guide To Tech.

artist statement

I am an eternal hybrid, drawn always to in-between spaces and what gets left out.

My work begins with absences—in data systems, in collective memory, in the histories we inherit from systems built on erasure. I'm interested in how forgetting becomes infrastructure: how societies decide what matters and bury what implicates them. My practice asks what happens when we build with absence itself as material.

I make these absences tangible through technical systems, institutional languages, films, and physical interventions. The goal is not resolution but recognition. Only when we name what's missing can we begin to reckon with it.

For some of us, erasure is an inheritance. My practice asks what it means to build from what is buried.