The Ori Collective
Artists as Channels. The Platform as Portal.
The Ori Collective is a growing constellation of visionary artists, designers, and cultural storytellers united by a shared commitment to ancestral intelligence, material innovation, and world-building through ritual, form, and frequency.
Our artists span geographies, disciplines, and traditions—but each one is on the cusp of transformation. We work with those entering significant new chapters in their creative evolution: artists whose practices are not only technically refined but spiritually urgent, emotionally resonant, and culturally expansive.
We do not curate by trend.
We curate by calling.
Our mission is to amplify voices from underrepresented lineages, emerging philosophies, and overlooked geographies—placing their work in dialogue with global audiences, architectural spaces, and ceremonial experiences that can hold their depth.
The Ori Collective is more than a roster—it is a living ecology of thought, craft, and intuition. Together, we create work that redefines how art moves through the world: not just as object, but as offering.
We place original ideas in living spaces—installations, exhibitions, rituals, and virtual realms—inviting forward thinkers, collectors, curators, and seekers to encounter the rare, the raw, and the sacred.
The Ori Collective: Current Collaborators
LONNIE EDWARDS
Introspection of the Black American Experience
Lonnie Edward’s contemporary artworks, much like his award-winning films, tell complex stories within a single frame, expression, or experience.
His surreal characters are an aesthetic and world on their own, but his use of technology, including augmented reality, creates experiences that are amalgamated with the pseudo-reality of pop culture and pop art.
Edwards’ work is intentionally juxtaposed to commentary on the current cultural, social or political climate of black people in America - via short films, books and other assets that can be accessed only when viewing his works.
Seth Damm
An Exploration of Tension and Fluidity
Seth Damm has turned common cotton rope into extraordinary works of sculptural design.
If art holds a specific frequency for viewers, he uses the tension and gravity of rope to elicit an alignment to that frequency. By altering the tension of each cord, the art piece itself becomes an instrument, from a different dimension, of creative expressions and a new perspective on interactive material-based art.
Damm’s work has garnered the attention of collectors and lovers of soft jewellery and fashion; from celebrities that include Halle Berry, Solange, Erykah Badu, Esperanza Spalding and Lily Tomlin - to publications that include ELLE Decor, Marie Claire, and BUST.
Erika Weitz
Bending the Spectrum Towards an Emergent Future
Erika Weitz’s Yakisugi sculptures and wet plate collodion photography embody a fusion of time-honored craftsmanship and cutting-edge innovation, seamlessly merging traditional techniques with AI and new media. Her practice navigates the continuum of time and technology, drawing the two into a dynamic, cyclical dialogue that redefines how we perceive and engage with both our inner landscapes and the external world.
Weitz’s work has garnered international acclaim, featured in solo and group exhibitions across cultural hubs such as Los Angeles, London, Seoul, Paris, Berlin, and Miami Beach, offering audiences an encounter with the intersections of past and future, tradition and innovation.
Alvaro Guilherme
A Pioneer in Neo-Brut - Merging African and European Surrealism
Guilherme’s body of work evokes a gravel and concrete battleground for contextually and socially relevant identity, reality, and culture.
His characters and figures are imaginative representations of the world beneath our daily lives.
Guilherme is intentional about an assessment of the world that forces introspection on the viewer. His paintings are depictions of the fight all individuals face within the unfair context of life.
DANA LÁSZLÓ DA COSTA
The Tactility of Remote Brazilian Flora
Textured, Vibrant, Surreal, Beautiful... there Is no shortage of lovely adjectives to describe the objects created by László da Costa as expressions of her artistry and craftsmanship.
Her work highlights the importance of nature and its memory, absorbed by dyes and preserved in the organic forms of her wool tapestries.
László da Costa’s playful depictions represent the journey of hand-dyed fibers, taken from plants in her homeland of Brazil and throughout the continental Americas - serving to remind us of the everlasting connection between nature and the materials in our lives
Olu Omishore
Bridging Ancient African Traditions with Contemporary Design
Olu Omisore’s work is deeply inspired by Ori Inu, a Yoruba term meaning “inner head,” representing the essence of identity, spirituality, and destiny. Drawing influence from the 11th-century naturalistic sculptures of Ori Olokun, Olu’s artistic expression seamlessly bridges ancient traditions with contemporary design.
The Ori House Virtual Gallery Experience
Virtual Gallery & Digital Art Experiences: Expanding Access Through Technology & Ritual Design
The Ori House does not integrating technology as novelty—but as a tool for deeper access and expanded presence.
Our evolving Virtual Gallery platform allows collectors, curators, and global audiences to experience the work of our artists without the constraints of geography or physical space. Through immersive digital exhibitions, interactive artist archives, and narrative-driven content, we offer a multidimensional experience of both the art and the ritual systems that inform it.
This platform also advances the way we manage, archive, and present private collections—combining art curation, digital asset management, and storytelling into one integrated experience.
By merging ancestral intelligence with emerging technology, The Ori House creates accessible, respectful, and meaningful digital pathways for encountering contemporary art.
Interested in working with our collective on a private or public project?