Wura-Natasha Ogunji

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

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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]

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References

  1. Channel, Louisiana (1 November 2016). "Wura-Natasha Ogunji: The Kissing Mask". The Huffington Post.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
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