Photo by Nika ThompsonAbout the artist
Ehiko Odeh is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher from Lagos, Nigeria, her process is rooted in material transformation to evoke a sense of haze, ambiguity, bridging the organic with the archival as a mode of adaptation. Her work engages family history, food security, and coiffure as reflections of economic change, while investigating globalization, ecology, herbology, and the poetics of space.
Ehiko holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a minor in Creative Writing from OCAD University (2021), Her works have been exhibited at The Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (2025), Design TO Festival (2024), United Contemporary (2025), Meridian Arts centre (2025), The Artist project (2024 & 2025) Her work was recently acquired into the Government of Ontario’s Art Collection (2025).