Mimi Ọnụọha is a Nigerian-American artist whose work highlights the absences that result from making the world fit forms of data. Her multimedia practice uses print, text, code, installation and video to unpack the power dynamics that result in different groups’ different relationships to systems that are simultaneously digital, cultural, and ecological. Her recent work includes In Absentia, a series of prints that borrow language from research by Black sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois conducted in the nineteenth century to address the difficulties he faced and the pitfalls he fell into, and A People’s Guide To AI, a comprehensive beginner’s guide to understanding AI and other data-driven systems, co-created with Diana Nucera.

Ọnụọha has been in residence at the Royal College of Art (UK), Studio XX (Canada), Data & Society Research Institute (USA),  Eyebeam Center for Arts & Technology (USA), and Arthouse Foundation (Nigeria, upcoming). She has spoken and exhibited internationally at venues like La Gaitê Lyrique (France), FIBER Festival (Netherlands), Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (China), and Le Centre Pompidou (France).