Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life New York Performances

At MoMA Exhibitions, **Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life** presents the New York–based artist’s work in the museum setting, foregrounding his long engagement with abstraction and color as a way to think about identity and movement. Odita, who has been part of New York’s contemporary art conversation for decades, draws on personal history and broader diasporic experience without turning the images into narrative illustration. The exhibition treats rhythm and structure as content, not decoration. One clear takeaway is how his formal decisions make perception feel unstable, and therefore political.