Wura-Natasha Ogunji

Wura-Natasha Ogunji (born 1970) is an artist and performer based in Lagos, Nigeria; she is of Nigerian descent.[1]

Education

Ogunji received a BA from Stanford University in 1992 and a MFA from San Jose State University in 1998.[2]

Work and career

Ogunji works in a variety of mediums[3] but is best known for her performative and video-based works.[2] Her artistic themes include physicality and the body, our relationship to space, memory, and history.[4] Her recent work deals with women occupying the public space of Lagos.[5]

Ogunji has been a visiting lecturer at the Center for Art of Africa and its Diasporas (CAAD) at the University of Texas at Austin[6] and was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.[7][8][9] Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Art Museum, Menil Collection, and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, among other venues.[2][4]

In 2023, Ogunji made her New York Solo debut at the Fridman Gallery. [10]

References

  1. ^ Channel, Louisiana (1 November 2016). "Wura-Natasha Ogunji: The Kissing Mask". The Huffington Post.
  2. ^ a b c Van Dyke, Kristina (2012). The Progress of Love. Houston and St. Louis: Menil Collection and Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-300-18493-8.
  3. ^ "Wura-Natasha Ogunji". wuraogunji.com. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. ^ a b "Biography and Artist Statement" (PDF). Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  5. ^ Greenwood, Caitlin. "Wura-Natasha Ogunji: 'Your heart is clean'". The Austin Chronicle.
  6. ^ ""About Us". The Center for Art of Africa and its Diasporas.
  7. ^ "Wura-Natasha Ogunji". Guggenheim Fellowship.
  8. ^ "Between Expansion of Time and eternal images - Vanguard News". Vanguard News. 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  9. ^ "From diaspora with Expansion of Time". Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  10. ^ Hamelo, Gameli (May 17, 2023). "Wura-Natasha Ogunji Creates Dreamy Drawings with Thread". ARTnews.