Photo by Didier Akinlabi Osias, 2024
Cici Osias (b. Baltimore, MD) is a textile artist, photographer and printmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work, full of vivibrance, draws influence from Nigerian, Haitian, African American, and Congolese motifs in order to make meaning of her identity and hold her people close.
Within her textiles and printmaking, 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 at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, NY.