Mimi Ọnụọha is a Nigerian-American artist whose work is about people, places, and things that are difficult to count and collect. Her multimedia practice uses print, code, installation, and archival video to make sense of the complex ecological, digital, and historical systems that surround and co-create us. Ọnụọha’s work has been exhibited widely at venues like The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, La Gaitê Lyrique in Paris, FIBER Festival in Amsterdam, Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in Shanghai, and Le Centre Pompidou in Paris. She has spoken and been in residence at The Royal College of Art. In Ọnụọha’s own words, “I am an eternal hybrid, drawn always to in-between spaces. I am fascinated by how metrified societies require the fluid, organic, messiness of people to be secured, tagged, categorized, and abstracted. In a world mediated by computers, everything begins to look like data, and that which doesn't fit the mold is at risk of being forgotten. My practice begins with these patterns of absence, which are always real and material and often located within people. I aim to trouble the assumptions baked into the technologies that mediate our experiences.”
