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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Materiel Remains, Morton Fine Art. Washington, DC. Curated by Amy Morton.
2018
Subwaves, George Washington Carver Museum. Austin, TX. Curated by Carre Adams.
2016
Patience On a Monument, Curated by Myron M. Beasley. Warfield Gallery, Austin, TX.
2015
Situations, Specifics, Attenuation, Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, Bronx, NY. Curated by Gabriel de Guzman.
Ruptured Silence, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC.
2013
Curious Industry, Gallery of Contemporary Art, STLCC Forest Park, St. Louis, MO.
Loss Prevention, Look Out Gallery, East Lansing, MI.
2007
Delayed Live, es ORO Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.


PUBLIC PROJECTS
2023
Asian Arts Initiative, Eco/Systems: Land Based Initiatives, Philadelphia, PA

2022
CASCODE. University of Pennsylvania/ PHDC, Permanent Public Sculpture Commission, Philadelphia, PA 

2021
Wilkes Park, Permanent Public Sculpture Commission. Alexandria, VA
Emanativ. Manhattan Greenway/ Harlem River, Permanent Public Sculpture Commission. Harlem, NY.

2020
Peaceful Journey, 42 Broad Street, Public Sculpture Commission. Mount Vernon, NY.
Memorial for the Enslaved Laborers, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Design Team Member)
2019          
Eastern Parkway Carnegie Branch Library – Finalist. Brooklyn, NY.
Subverse Un/Seen, Carver Museum, Austin, TX.       
2015
Passing Point, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC.
2014
Corner, Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship. Queens, NY.
2013
Looping Back, FLOW Public Commission for Randall’s Island Park, New York, NY.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2022
Migratuese Reimagined, Selma, AL. (Wideman-Davis Dance).

2021
Abandoned Orchestra, Sound Sculpture installation, and performance with Zane Rodulfo, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.  
2020
Migratuese Ataraxia, Harpersville, AL. (Wideman-Davis Dance). 
Migratuese Ataraxia, Wilmington, NC. (Wideman-Davis Dance). 
2019
Migratuese Ataraxia, Hampton Preston Mansion, Columbia, SC. (Wideman-Davis Dance) 
2018
The Golden Hour, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA, Curated by Oshun D. Layne.
2017
Astral America, SVA Flatiron Project Space, New York, NY, curated by Karen Moscovich.
Call and Response, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. Curated by Gabriel de Guzman.
2016
Bronx: Africa, Longwood Gallery, Bronx, NY.
2015
AfroFUTUREqueer, Jack, Brooklyn, NY (performance)
Artist in Residence Workspace Exhibition, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
2014
EAF Fellowship Public Art Exhibition - Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY.
Presence, Immersion and Location - The Fourteenth Biennial Arts and Technology, Hygienic Art Gallery, New London, CT.
Our Journey Forward, Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC. (performance)
2013
Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY.
Curate NYC" Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
"Station2Station"The Knock Down Center, Maspeth, NY.
"Meditations on Emancipation" Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, Geneseo, NY.
2012
"Global Positioning System (So You Say You Want A Revolution)" Westside Gallery, New York, NY.
"Transformers: Coiled Potentials" Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
"The Good American" Underline Gallery, New York, NY.
"New Media and Abstract Works" Fish With Braids Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.
2011
"Geo Loco" Outpost Resources, Ridgewood, NY.
"The Waiting" Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY. (Performance)
"The Waiting" The Tank, New York, NY. (Performance)
2010
"Data Dada" Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY.
"The Waiting" Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY. (Performance)
2008
"Now You See It, Now You Don't" Superfront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
"Art Focus for Obama, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, NY.
2004
"Art of the African Diaspora in the Age of Globalization" Schmucker Art Gallery - Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.
"Black Circus" Gallery M, Harlem, NY.



AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS

  • Creative Capital Awardee, Tankugbe Incubation Lab, eo Studio (2023)

  • Augustus St. Gaudens Fellowship, Cornish, New Hampshire (2022)

  • Thought Leader/ Advisor for the Sojourner Truth Memorial and Plaza in partnership with The African American Cultural Heritage Action/ National Trust for Historic Preservation, Akron, OH. (2021)

  • Social Practice CUNY-Mellon Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY. (2021)

  • Tow Faculty Research Travel Fellowship, CUNY, New York, NY. Intensive Performance Art Residency at the Dance and Performance Institute in Trinidad & Tobago. (2020) 

  • NOMA NAACP SEED Award for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Design for the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA. (2020)

  • Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC. (2017-18)

  • CEC Artslink Project Award, Cairo, Egypt. (2015)

  • GO! Emerging Artist Commission, STREB, Brooklyn, New York (2014)

  • FLOW Public Commission for Randall’s Island Park, New York, NY (2013)

  • Albany/ Schenectady League of Arts, Albany, NY. (2004)

  • James Irvine Foundation, Stanford, CA (2002-03)

  • Peter J. Eloranta Foundation Fellowship, Cambridge, MA (1999)

  • Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. MIT, Cambridge, MA (1999)

  • Cordover Scholar in the Arts. MIT, Cambridge, MA (1997-98)

  • Albert A. List Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY (1997)


RESIDENCIES

  • Wassiac Winter Family Residency (2022)

  • MassMoCA Summer Residency, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. North Adams, MA. (2019)

  • Artist in Residence Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY (2016)

  • Warfield Center for African and African American Studies Visiting Scholar, University of Texas at Austin,  Austin, TX (2015-16)

  • Elizabeth M. Marion Visiting Artist Residency, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (2014)

  • The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (2014)

  • Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO (2013)

  • Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx, NY (2013)

  • School of the Visual Arts Summer Residency in Sculpture, New York (2010)

  • Seeing Exhibition Artist in Residence, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (2002-03)

  • Sculpture and Installation Apprenticeship with Valerie Maynard, Baltimore, MD (1999)

  • Printmaking Apprenticeship with Robert Blackburn, The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY (1997)


LECTURES/ PANELS/ PRESENTATIONS

  • Panelist, Claiming Space Symposium, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (2022)

  • Panelist, Fumihiko Maki Lecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. (2021)

  • Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. (2021)

  • Guest Lecture, The Artist Residency Project, School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY.  (2021)

  • Panelist, Compassion and Social Justice, Transart Institute, New York, NY. (2021)

  • Panelist, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (2021)

  • Artist Talk, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX. (2021)

  • Panelist, Memorial to Enslaved Laborers | Online Conversation, presented by Columbia University School of the Arts | Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Cornell AAP | Architecture, Arts, Planning | Studio Museum in Harlem | Queens Museum. (2020)

  • Panelist for Disrupted Practice, Collaboration, Workflows, and Labor – Presenting, Parametric Photo V-Carve for Variable Surfaces: Computational Design for a Cultural Application as part of the ACADIA 2020 Conference, Distributed Proximities. (2020)

  • Panelist, Reimagining Antebellum Spaces: Traversing Black Life in the Contemporary, Birmingham, AL.  

  • Artist Talk, New York City Sculptors Guild, New York, NY. (2020)

  • Artist Talk, National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.  (2018)

  • Panelist, Honoring Black America, Tom Tom Founders Festival, Charlottesville, VA. (2018)

  • Panelist, Building Wakanda: Afro-Futures of Durham and Beyond, Moog Festival, Durham, NC. (2018)   

  • Panelist, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2016)

  • Panelist, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY (2016)

  • Guest Lecture, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO (2013)

  • Emerging Visions Visiting Artist, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (2013)

  • Visiting Artist in Dance Technology, Duke University, Durham, NC (2013)

  • Guest Panelist Council of the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, MA (2013)

  • Visiting Artist Lecture, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (2010)


COLLABORATIONS

  • Migratuese Reimagined, Selma, AL. collaboration with Wideman-Davis Dance (2022)

  • Migratuese Ataraxia, Hampton Preston Mansion, Columbia, SC. collaboration with Wideman-Davis Dance (2019)

  • fastDANCEpast, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI.  Collaboration with Slippage (2016)

  • John Hope Franklin Mirror, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC.  Collaboration with Slippage (2015)

  • Cane, With Slippage and Wideman-Davis Dance,Duke University, Durham, NC (2013)

  • Cane, With Slippage and Wideman-Davis Dance,University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (2013)

  • Based on Images, With Slippage and Wideman-Davis Dance, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (2012)


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cotter, Holland, “Turning Grief for a Hidden Past Into a Healing Space” New York Times, August 16, 2020. https://nyti.ms/345qpVG 

Miranda, Carolina, A. “Commentary: Goodbye, guy on a horse.  A new wave of monument design is changing how we honor history” Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2020. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-07-23/momument-debate-honor-history-new-design-goodbye-guy-on-a-horse 

McGuigan, Cathleen, “The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia” Architectural Record, July 23, 2020. https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14725-the-memorial-to-enslaved-laborers-at-the-university-of-virginia 

Fazzare, Elizabeth, “UVA’s New Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Confronts the School’s History” Architectural Digest, September 9, 2020. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/uva-memorial-to-enslaved-laborers 

Meejin Yoon, J.; Chernyakova, Irina, “Architecture and Action.” MIT Press. 2019.

Townsend, Phillip, “Exhibition Review – Patience on a Monument” African Arts, Volume 50, No. 2 Summer 2017.

Ladymon, Amanda, “Eto Otitigbe Melds Technology into Visual and Performance-Based Art: An Interview with USC's Resident Artist,” Free Times, November 8, 2014.
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Shannon, Jonathan, “Amazing Outdoor Art,” Time Out New York, Issue 904 April 25 – May 1, 2013.

Eto Otitigbe, Interview on Current State Radio Show #6, WKAR Radio, East Lansing, MI, January 21, 2013.

Leeper-Sullivan, Adria, “An Open System in Constant Flux,” Paradigm Magazine, October 12, 2012. 

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Interview, “Lasting Impressions, Robert Blackburn and the Printmaking Workshop,” Public Broadcasting Service, New York, NY, 1997.

EDUCATION
2012   MFA in Creative Practice, Transart Institute, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
2003   M.S. Engineering Product Design, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1999   B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.