Joshua Oduga

Joshua Oduga (b. 1987, Providence) is a first-generation Nigerian American interdisciplinary artist, curator, gallery director, and writer based between Los Angeles and London. His artistic, curatorial, and research practices focus on archives, alternative histories, oral and musical traditions, exhibition systems, and the relationship between contemporary art, performance, and infrastructure. His work has been exhibited at the Torrance Art Museum, PAM, Durden and Ray, and the Claremont Colleges. He has curated and organized exhibitions and public programs with Art + Practice, the Hammer Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Various Small Fires, and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery. In 2021, Oduga co-founded Central Server Works with Rachael Oduga as an artist-run gallery, publishing house, and interdisciplinary production platform focused on exhibitions, publishing, film, sound, and performance. Oduga holds an MFA in Fine Art and an MA in Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University, and will begin a PhD in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in fall 2026.

Exhibitions

Summer 26

June 27 – August 22, 2026