Odera Igbokwe
[oh-deh-rah ee-boh-kway]
Odera Igbokwe is an illustrator and painter located in Vancouver, BC by way of Brooklyn, NY.
Odera loves to explore storytelling through afro-diasporic mythologies, black resilience, and magical girl transformation sequences. Their work alchemizes color, movement, and queer magic to weave together ancient narratives with afrofuturist visions.
You can also find Odera as manager of Every Day Original, curating and collaborating on zines, or combo-breaking the internet.
CLIENTS INCLUDE
Fantasy Flight Games, FireSide Magazine, Huffington Post, Lightspeed Magazine, What Pumpkin Games
Personal works and commissions for: Beyoncé, Solange Knowles, Oumou Sangaré, and Dawn Richard
EXHIBITIONS & SHOWCASES
Helikon Gallery, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Gallery 1988, The James Black Gallery
MOCCA, Illuxcon, Harriet's Apothecary, Annual Black Comic Festival
WORK FEATURED IN
Buzzfeed, Blavity, Afropunk, OkayAfrica, BlackNerdProblems
MSNBC, Humans of New York, GREE News
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA in Illustration
Brown University, focus in Theater Arts & Performance Studies with New Works/World Traditions.
Odera loves to explore storytelling through afro-diasporic mythologies, black resilience, and magical girl transformation sequences. Their work alchemizes color, movement, and queer magic to weave together ancient narratives with afrofuturist visions.
You can also find Odera as manager of Every Day Original, curating and collaborating on zines, or combo-breaking the internet.
CLIENTS INCLUDE
Fantasy Flight Games, FireSide Magazine, Huffington Post, Lightspeed Magazine, What Pumpkin Games
Personal works and commissions for: Beyoncé, Solange Knowles, Oumou Sangaré, and Dawn Richard
EXHIBITIONS & SHOWCASES
Helikon Gallery, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Gallery 1988, The James Black Gallery
MOCCA, Illuxcon, Harriet's Apothecary, Annual Black Comic Festival
WORK FEATURED IN
Buzzfeed, Blavity, Afropunk, OkayAfrica, BlackNerdProblems
MSNBC, Humans of New York, GREE News
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA in Illustration
Brown University, focus in Theater Arts & Performance Studies with New Works/World Traditions.
Contact me at odera@odera.net
or connect with me on any of these platforms
or connect with me on any of these platforms
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