Photo by Didier Akinlabi Osias, 2024
Cici Osias (b. Baltimore, MD) is a textile artist, photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work 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, 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.
Cici is currently an artist in residence at the Textile Arts Center and the Haiti Cultural Exchange. Most recently, her work has been featured at the Old Stone House, Haiti Cultural Exchange, Textile Arts Center and Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, NY.