About
R.O.I Olou , Artist.Creative Systems Strategist.Lorist.Innovator
Their work transforms experience into living, tactile archives—treating time as a system, and creative practice as something that can be built, tested, and continually reconfigured.
They connect unlikely things, developing systems and models for making sense of the mess. Their practice moves across drawing, painting, animation, film, and other forms, looking for relationships between fragments, moments, materials, and ideas.
R.O.I runs Studio System Lab, a space for artists and makers to examine how their practices work, build systems around what they discover, and develop models that allow their work to keep evolving.
Turn the improbable into maybe.time is a dancer
Their work is held in public and private collections internationally.
Can also teach u to swish a 3-pointer with your eyes closed.
Exhibitions
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Every connected fibre, a theory of everything, Maclaren Art center ,Barrie
Low Earth Orbit, Smoke the Moon,Santa Fé
Where the Light Finds You, Mark Christopher Gallery,Toronto
Dancing in the Light, The Wedge Collection at MOCA Toronto
Film Screenings
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TIFF Kids International Film Festival
Ottawa International Animation Festival
GIRAF Animation Festival
Animated Dreams Estonia Animation Festival
Monstra Festival
TAAFI Toronto
Toronto Urban Film Festival
Fantasia Film Festival
Anima Mundi Film Festival
Cornwall Film Festival
Residencies
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Annandale Residency, Annandale, Prince Edward County
Drake Artist in Residence, Drake Devonshire, Prince Edward County
Press
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Globe and Mail, Pursuits, Canada’s Best Dressed, interviewed by Odessa Paloma Parker, 2024
Canada Reads 2024 book trailers, CBC, 2024
La Billeterie, entrevue avec Raoul Olou, Radio Canada, interviewed by Alison Vicrobeck, 2023
Toronto vu par Raoul Olou, ONFR+, short documentary directed by Joanne Belluco, 2022
L’artiste Qui Archive Le Banal, CBC Radio Canada, “Y a Pas Deux Matin Pareils”, 2019
Featured artist: Depictions of Toronto Streetscapes Earn This Former Animator a Place in the City's Official Art Collection by Sherry Smither, Luxe Magazine Issue 03, 2019
Education
Bachelor in Film Animation
Concordia University, Montreal
Diplôme de Réalisation Numérique
Ecole George Méliès, Paris
Collections/Clients
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