Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce The Velocity of Change, the fourth solo exhibition of new paintings by Odili Donald Odita.

Odita was born in 1966 in Enugu, Nigeria and lives and works in Philadelphia. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally, including recent exhibitions, Heaven’s Gate, at Savannah College of Art and Design (2012-2013); Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections, Newark Museum, New Jersey (2015-16);Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2015); Evolving Geometries, Virginia Tech Center for the Arts (2014); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, as a part of the exhibition ARS 11 (2011). In 2007, Odita’s large installation Give Me Shelter was featured prominently in the 52^nd Venice Biennale exhibition Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, curated by Robert Storr.