Photo by Didier Akinlabi Osias, 2022
Cici Osias (b. Baltimore, MD) is a textile artist, photographer and printmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work, full of vivid colors, draws influence from Nigerian, Haitian, and Congolese motifs in order to make meaning of her identity and hold her people close.
Within her textile and printmaking work, Cici recognizes the role of cloth as a vessel for storytelling within African, Caribbean, and African American culture. Through this work, she traces the vestiges of shared origin and collective memory across the Black diaspora. Cici’s photographs, all of which are analog, embrace family as a verb, and the earth as kin.
Most recently, Cici’s work has been featured in group shows including the Imagining Our Future exhibition at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, NY.
See Cici’s published work here.