Ọnụọha was selected as part of our first open application process and will begin her residency in 2025.
The Broad Art and Science Connection is thrilled to announce our 9th Artist-in-Residence, Mimi Ọnụọha. Mimi was one of nearly 30 artists who applied in the program's first open request for proposals.
A Nigerian-American artist based in Brooklyn, Mimi creates work using “materials of the information age to make sense of the contradictions inherent within modernity. Globalized, quantified societies require the fluid messiness of people to be made legible. Anything that doesn't fit is at risk of being forgotten,” she wrote in her application. She often begins with the forgotten bits. “What is still missing is still there,” she wrote.
Some of her previous work includes mixed media installations, such as “The Library of Missing Datasets (2016),” where she created a physical repository of blank spots that exist in otherwise data-saturated spaces. In “The Cloth In The Cable,” she wrapped internet cables with objects of significance in Igbo culture, as a gesture towards infusing modern technology with the values from other cultures.
While in residency at the Broad Institute, she is interested in working with scientists to consider biomedical and genomic data, and exchange ideas. “I love being in a community that I both fit into and completely am outside with,” she wrote. “I am interested in being around people who have enough shared references to allow us to move together into the unknown.”
Mimi will begin her Broad residency in March, 2025. You can read more about her work on her website and about the Artist-in-Residence program on the Broad’s website.
Photo Credit: Julia Robbins
