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Toyin Ojih Odutola

Representatives of State

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May 13, 11:27 PM GMT

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1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

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Toyin Ojih Odutola

 b. 1985


Representatives of State

signed, titled and dated 2017 (on the reverse)

pastel, charcoal and graphite on paper

72 ⅞ by 50 ¾ in.

185.1 by 128 cm.  

Executed in 2016-17.

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Private Collection

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined, October 2017 - February 2018

Hanover, Hood Museum of Art, Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Firmament, June - September 2018

Rujeko Hockley and Melinda Lang, "Toyin Ojih Odutola: By Her Design," Whitney Museum of American Art, 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Victoria L. Valentine, "Known for Her Conceptual Portraiture, Toyin Ojih Odutola's First Solo Museum Show in New York Opens at the Whitney Oct. 20," Culture Type, 10 October 2017, illustrated in color (online)

"9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week," ARTnews, 16 October 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Rozanne Els, "This Whitney Artist’s Drawing Appeared on Empire," The Cut, 20 October 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Caroline Goldstein, "Made Famous on the Set of ‘Empire,’ Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Opulent Portraits Dazzle at the Whitney Museum," Artnet News, 26 October 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Christa Dee, "Toyin Ojih Odutola // What is black?," Bubblegum Club, 26 October 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Julia Felsenthal, "At the Whitney, a Vision of Africa—Without the Colonialist Meddling," Vogue, 27 October 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Cyndi Suarez, "Odutola’s New Exhibit at the Whitney Envisions Black Wealth," Non-Profit Quarterly, 6 November 2017 (text) (online)

Eduardo Alfonso, "Toyin Ojih Odutola’s To Wander Determined Is a Must-See at The Whitney," L'OFFICIEL, 8 November 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Molly Langmuir, Trish Deitch, "ELLE Women in Art: Who to Know, Love, Collect," Elle, 16 November 2017, illustrated in color (detail) (photographed with the artist) (online)

"A Year of Magical Figurative Art," Hyperallergic, 25 December 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Federico Belizon Acal, ed., "Toyin Ojih Odutola at Whitney Museum of American Art," Art Viewer, 26 January 2018, illustrated in color (online)

Seph Rodney, "The Permanence of Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Invented World," Hyperallergic, 16 February 2018, illustrated in color (online)

Zadie Smith, "And Still We Rise," British Vogue, 1 June 2018, p. 89, illustrated in color

John Stromberg, "Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Firmament," Hood Quarterly, June 2018, p. 6, illustrated in color

Jeffrey Deitch, Aria Dean, Johanna Fateman, et. al., Unrealism: New Figurative Painting, New York, 2019, p. 260, illustrated in color

Cathy Buckmaster, "Toyin Ojih Odutola at The Curve," Alhaus, 3 January 2020, illustrated in color (online)

Charlotte Jansen, "Toyin Ojih Odutola Gives Shape to the Migrant Experience of Otherness," Elephant, 8 July 2020, illustrated in color (online)

Balasz Takac, "Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Immersive Barbican Commission Soon On View," Widewalls, 20 July 2020, illustrated in color (online)

Amy Tobin, "A Countervailing Theory, a parable," Burlington Contemporary, 22 December 2020, fig. 4, illustrated in color (online)

Toyin Ojih Odutola, Toyin Ojih Odutola: The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi, New York, 2021, p. 55, illustrated in color and p. 164 (text)

Lovia Gyarkye, "Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Mesmeric Alternate Universes," The New York Times Style Magazine, 19 November 2021, illustrated in color (online)

Katy Hessel, The Story of Art Without Men, New York, 2023, p. 440, illustrated in color

Daphne Lamothe, Black Time & the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects, Chapel Hill, 2024, pp. 73-74, illustrated