Central Valley California Arts Project (CVCAP) is excited to provide a virtual webinar featuring artist Mimi Ọnụọha. This CVCAP webinar will explore the themes of memory, data, and historical erasure central to Ọnụọha’s practice. Drawing from her recent solo show, Soft Zeros (Secession, Vienna), Ọnụọha will discuss her decision to build a machine-learning model capable of predicting the location of other hidden graves across Texas, and will ask what happens when the tools we build to find truth rely on systems designed to produce forgetting. Designed for educators across disciplines, this session will invite discussion and reflection on how contemporary art can spark new ways of teaching about history, technology, and social justice in K–16 curriculum.
- Date: Tuesday, March 17 , 2026
- Registration Deadline: March 13, 2026
- Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM (PT)
- Location: Zoom
- Cost: Free
Soft Zeros Lecture Featuring Artist Mimi Ọnụọha
Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha (b. 1989, Italy) creates work that questions and exposes the contradictory logics of technological progress. Through print, code, data, video, installation, and archival media, Ọnụọha offers new orientations for making sense of the seeming absences that define systems of labor, ecology and relations.
Ọnụọha’s solo exhibition credits include Secession (Austria), Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), and bitforms Gallery (USA). Her work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art (USA), the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (AUS), Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (China), La Gaitê Lyrique (France), Gropius Bau (Germany), The Photographers Gallery (UK), and Espaço Cultural Futuros Arte e Tecnologia (Brazil) among others. Her public art engagements have been supported by Akademie der Kunst (Germany), Le Centre Pompidou (France) the Royal College of Art (UK), the Rockefeller Foundation (USA), and Princeton University (USA).
Ọnụọha earned her MPS from NYU Tisch’s Interactice Telecommunications Program, where she has taught as an Assistant Professor. She is a Creative Capital and Fulbright-National Geographic grantee. She is also the Co-founder of A People’s Guide To Tech, an artist-led organization that makes educational guides and workshops about emerging technology.
Artist Statement
I am an eternal hybrid, drawn always to in-between spaces and what gets left out.
My work begins with what is missing—in data systems, in collective memory, in the histories we inherit. I’m interested in how forgetting becomes infrastructure, and in how people and societies decide what matters. My practice asks what happens when we treat absence itself as material.
I make these absences tangible through technical systems, institutional languages, films, and physical interventions. The goal is not resolution but recognition. Only when we name what’s missing can we begin to reckon with it.
For some of us, erasure is an inheritance. My practice asks what it means to build from what is buried.
Questions? Please contact CVCAP Director, Ahran Koo, akoo@csufresno.edu.
Sponsors
The California Arts Project
Fresno State | Kremen School of Education and Human Development
Fresno State | ASI