Onome Daniella Olotu was born in 1993 in Lagos, Nigeria. She studied art (Painting Major) at the University of Benin. After graduation, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the National Gallery of Art, Abuja and later as an art teacher before taking on full time studio practice at the Universal Studios of Art, Lagos in 2018. Working predominantly in charcoal and acrylics, her work engages personal family and institutional archives to respond to social and political events. Her works have been exhibited across Nigeria and recently in Canada at the exhibition Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots at the Museum of Anthropology, The University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. She is currently running a program at Cornell University and works between New York, Princeton and Lagos.