Magdalene Odundo, born in Kenya and studied at the Royal College of Art in London, has exhibited her ceramic works in galleries and museums in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Her work is in the British Museum, The Museum of African Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and many others. She is represented by Anthony Slayter-Ralph. Her first exhibition in the United States was at the Anthony Ralph Gallery in New York in 1991.

Resonance and Inspiration: New Works by Magdalene Odundo Catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized by the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida. 2006. Essays by Susan Cooksey, Linda Arbuckle and Augustus Casely-Hayford. 16 pp. 11 colour and 6 black and white plates Available from the Harn Museum Magdalene Odundo Edited by Anthony Slayter-Ralph. London, Lund Humphries, 2004. Foreword by Sir Christopher Frayling with essays by Emmanuel Cooper and Simon Olding. 128 pp. 64 colour and 140 black and white images. A catalogue raisonne of the work to date. $70.00 + postage Magdalene Odundo: Clay Forms Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition held at Blackwell/Lakeland Arts Trust, Bowness-on-Windemere, UK. 2001. Essays by Marina Vaizey and Emmanuel Cooper. 58pp. 52 colour plates $30.00 + postage Ceramic Gestures: New Vessels by Magdalene Odundo Catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized by the University Art Museum. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995. Essay by Marla C. Berns. 35pp. 14 colour and 6 black and white plates $25.00 + postage Magdalene Odundo Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition held at the Museum Het Kruithuis, Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. 1994 Foreword by Yvonne G.J.M. Joris. Essays by Gert Staal and John Picton 72pp. 34 colour plates $40.00 + postage Magdalene Odundo Catalogue of works exhibited at the Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York. 1991. Introduction by David Queensberry, London 24pp. 8 colour and 8 black and white plates Out of print New Works: Magdalene Odundo Catalogue of traveling exhibition organised by the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery & Museum, Swansea, Wales. 1987. Essay by Rosemary Hill. 22pp. 2 colour and 8 black and white plates $12.00 + postage