BIOGRAFIE
1944 | born in Ghana, Africa |
1965 - 1968 | BA (Art) College of Art, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana |
1969 | Postgraduate Diploma in Art Education, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana Best Student of the Year, College of Art, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana |
1969 - 1975 | Lecturer, Art Education Department, Specialist Training College, Winneba, Ghana |
1982 - 1996 | Senior Lecturer, Fine and Applied Arts Department, UNN |
1996 - 2011 | Professor of Sculpture, Fine and Applied Arts Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Head of Department, Fine and Applied Arts Department, UNN |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2020 | Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria LaBanque Art Center, Béthune France |
2019 | Arab Museum of Modern Art (MATHAF), Doha, Qatar Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, New Mexico, USA October Gallery, London, United Kingdom Goodman Gallery, London Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago Alice Black, London Royal Academy of Art, London National Maritime Museum, Greenwich The Phillips Collection, Washington DC Maison de l’Union, Casablanca Randall’s Island Park, New York Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire Cape Town, South Africa Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Belgium Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France Archaeological Civic Museum, Bologna Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia |
2018 | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium Setagaya Art Museum, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan Goodman Gallery,Cape Town Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA Sandton Convention Center, Johannesburg, South Africa Mnuchin Gallery, NY, USA Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Gemany Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA October Gallery, London, UK Royal Academy of Arts, London UK Art Brussels, 2018, Brussels, Belgium Dak’Art Biennale 2018, Dakar Senegal Desiderata, Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa Brussels Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium ZAC – Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Sicily, Italy Art Basel, Hong Kong National Gallery of Victoria, Southbank, Australia Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo (MAXXI), Rome |
2017 | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium Bakarat Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London October Gallery, Bloomsbury, London Sculpteurs d’Afrique, Avignon, France Gazelli Art House, London Acquavella Galleries, New York Kewenig Galerie, Berlin Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France Palazzo de la Triennale, Milan, Italy Burlington House, London Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy |
2016 | Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Trapholt Museum, South Jutland, Denmark October Gallery, London, UK Carriageworks, Sydney Festival 2016, Sydney, Australia Art Basel, Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland Marrakech Biennale 6: Not New Now, Marrakech, Morocco Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, USA High Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
2015 | October Gallery, London, UK Le Fenil Gallery, The Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, France The School, Kinderhook, NY Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University, Sarasota, FL Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Vero Beach Museum of Art Anita Reiner Collection, Cristin Tierney Gallery Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium Altman Siegel Gallery University of New Mexico Art Museum 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Surface Tension, Flag Art Foundation, New York Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, USA Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany |
2015 - 2016 | Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL, USA The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, USA |
2014 | Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA Mnuchin Gallery, New York, USA Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria, Africa Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA Royal Academy, London, UK Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain |
2013 | Royal Academy of Arts, London 5 Beekman Street, New York, NY, USA Cedar Lake Theatre, New York, NY, USA ArtZuid 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands October Gallery, London, UK Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany |
2012 | Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 1st Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Paris Triennial 2012, Palais de Tokyo/ Musée Galliera, Paris, France Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Dialogues, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan We Face Forward, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
2012 - 2013 | The High Line, New York, USA |
2012 - 2014 | El Anatsui Selected Exhibitions in 2012-2014: Museum, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA Denver Art Museum, Colorado; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
2012 - 2015 | El Anatsui Selected Exhibitions in 2012-2015: Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Traveling to: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA |
2011 | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA The Mojo Gallery, Dubai, UAE Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Sotheby’s, NY, USA The Vatican, Rome, Italy San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX, USA |
2011 - 2012 | Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, NY, USA Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, USA Architectural Environments for Tomorrow: New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA Alte National Galerie, Berlin, Germany The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, USA Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzilya, Israel Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
2010 - 2011 | National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden |
2010 - 2012 | El Anatsui Selected Exhibitions in 2010-2012: organised by the Museum for African Art, New York, USA Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA |
2009 | Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia Castelli di Puglia, Barletta Castle, Barletta, Italy Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India October Gallery, London, UK Institut Valencia D’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO, USA Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria Denver Art Museum, CO, USA Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain |
2009 - 2010 | The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA |
2008 | San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA Grey Art Gallery, NY, USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA Museum for Arts and Design, NY, USA Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA October Gallery, London, UK Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain Hillside Terrace Galleries, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, The Netherlands |
2007 | Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy 52nd Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria October Gallery, London, UK Terra Culture, Lagos, Nigeria Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE |
2006 | Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy, in collaboration with October Gallery, London, UK David Krut Projects, New York, USA, in collaboration with October Gallery, London, UK The Museum of Modern Art NY, USA DAK’ART 2006, 7th Biennale of African Art, Dakar, Senegal Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, USA Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA Sean Kelly Gallery, NY, USA Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USA Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA, USA Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, USA |
2006 - 2011 | Rubin Museum of Art, NY, USA Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA |
2005 | De Young Museum, San Francisco, USA Danudo: Recent Sculptures of El Anatsui Skoto Gallery (in collaboration with Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York) Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA October Gallery, London, UK Skoto Gallery in collaboration with Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, UK Maison de France, Lagos, Nigeria De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA |
2004 - 2005 | Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany and touring to the Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
2004 | 5th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea October Gallery, London, UK |
2003 | Villa Groppallo, Vado Ligure, Italy October Gallery, London, UK Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK. An Oriel Mostyn Gallery exhibition touring to Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Republic of Ireland, Gallery Oldham, Oldham, England, UK, October Gallery, London, UK, Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, England, UK and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Florida, USA Villa Groppallo, Vado Ligure, Italy Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium National Museum Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria Skoto Gallery, NY, USA |
2003 - 2008 | Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland October Gallery, London, UK Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, USA The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
2002 | October Gallery, London, UK Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK |
2001 | National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA The 1st Albissola Ceramics Biennale, Museo Civico d’ArteContemporanea and Museo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola, Italy, touring to Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands; Consejería de Cultura de Comunidad, Madrid, Spain Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain October Gallery, London, UK Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, USA Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA Messagers de la Terre, Rur’Art– Espace d’Art Contemporain d’Lycée Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouille, France |
2000 | Centro Atlántico Arte Moderno, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain |
1999 | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK October Gallery, London, UK Les Champs de la Sculpture, Champs Elysées, Paris, France |
1998 | October Gallery, London, UK The Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria 7. Triennale der Kleineplastik, Stuttgart, Germany 9th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan Skoto Gallery, NY, USA |
1997 | The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA French Cultural Centre, Lagos, Nigeria Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark October Gallery, London, UK Torpedohallen, Copenhagen, Denmark Sala 1, Rome, Italy Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria Contemporary African Gallery, NY, USA Skoto Gallery, NY, USA |
1996 | Skoto Gallewry, New York, USA The Contemporary African Gallery, New York, USA Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria Container ’96– Art Across Oceans, Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark |
1995 | October Gallery, London, UK 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa AKA ’95, Bona Gallery, Enugu and Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria October Gallery, London, UK Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan Himeji City Museum of Arts, Himeji, Japan Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, Japan Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Marugame, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan World Intellectual Property Organisation Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland 6th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Configura 2, Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany Skoto Gallery, NY, USA |
1994 | 5th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba AKA ’94, Bona Gallery, Enugu, Nigeria AKA ’94, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
1993 | New Currents ’93– Avant-Garde Nigerian Art, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria October Gallery, London, UK AKA ’93, Bona Gallery, Enugu, Nigeria AKA ’93, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
1992 | University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany Arte Amazonas, Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; travelled as: Klima Global to Staatliche Kunalle, Berlin, Germany; and to Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany AKA ’92, Bona Gallery, Enugu AKA ’92, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria AKA ’92, Begegnung mit den Anderen, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany |
1991 | AKA ’91, Bona Gallery, Enugu and Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy The National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria, Africa 4th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba |
1990 | 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy The Calabash 1st Art Exhibition, The Calabash, Lagos, Nigeria AKA ’90, The Presidential Hotel, Enugu, Nigeria AKA ’90, Goethe-Insitut, Lagos, Nigeria Continuing Education Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, USA African-American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA Chicago Public Library Cultural Centre, Chicago, IL, USA Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., USA The Museum of the National Center of African-American Artists (NCAAA), Boston, MA, USA |
1989 | Zeitgenössische Nigerianische Kunst, Bonn, Bocholt and Mönchengladbach, Germany |
1988 | Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria The Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria AKA ’88, Nigerian Union of Journalists’ Press Centre, Enugu, Nigeria AKA ’88, Contemporary Art Gallery, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria AKA ’88, National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria |
1987 | Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Cornwall College, Redruth, UK University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria The Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria AKA ’87, The Presidential Hotel, Enugu, Nigeria AKA ’87, National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria |
1986 | AKA ’86 – the French Centre, Enugu and Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria |
1983 | Mintec Gallery, Port Harcourt, Nigeria |
1982 | Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
1981 | Billingham Art Gallery, Billingham Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough, UK The House of Commons Gallery, London, UK |
1980 | Cummington Community of Arts, Cummington, Massachusetts, USA |
1979 | Holy Trinity Cathedral Hall, Onitsha, Nigeria Art Gallery of the Rivers State Council for Arts and Culture, Port Harcourt, Nigeria |
1979 | British Council, Enugu and the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
1976 | Asele Art Gallery, Nsukka, Nigeria |
1975 | The Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
1974 | Tekarts Expo 5, Accra Arts Centre, Accra, Ghana |
1969 - 1970 | National Arts Centre, Accra, Ghana Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2017 | Praemium Imperiale Award for Sculpture, The Japan Art Association, Tokyo, Japan Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award, XIth Florence Biennale Florence, Italy Brandywine Workshop and Archives Lifetime Achievement Award, Philadelphia, USA |
2016 | Honorary Doctor of Arts, 365th Commencement Ceremony, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA), 2016 graduation ceremonies, The University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa |
2015 | Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
2014 | Elected Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA Elected Honorary Academician, British Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2nd Best Monographic Museum Show in New York category, AICA-USA, “Gravity and Grace: Works by El Anatsui”, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA |
2013 | Charles Wollaston Award, 245th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2012 - 2015 | Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA Des Moines Art Center, IA, USA Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, USA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA |
2012 - 2013 | the High Line, NY, USA |
2012 | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, USA |
2011 | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA |
2010 - 2012 | Museum for African Art, NY, USA Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin,TX, USA North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA Denver Art Museum, CO, USA University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
2010 - 2011 | National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Japan Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan |
2010 | Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, USA |
2009 | 30th Anniversary Award, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. USA Prince Claus Award, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, Lagos, Nigeria Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO, USA BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India |
2008 | Visionaries Award, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, USA San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, USA |
2006 | David Krut Projects, NY, USA, in collaboration with October Gallery, London, UK Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy, in collaboration with October Gallery, London, UK |
2005 | Skoto Gallery in collaboration with Contemporary African Art Gallery, NY, USA |
2003 - 2008 | Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland Gallery Oldham, Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK October Gallery, London, UK Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA |
2002 | October Gallery, London, UK |
1999 | Public’s Prize, 7th Small-Scale Sculpture Triennial, Stuttgart, Germany |
1998 | Bronze Prize, 9th Sculpture Triennial, Osaka, Japan October Gallery, London, UK |
1997 | French Cultural Centre, Lagos, Nigeria |
1995 | Kansai Telecasting Corporation Prize, 3rd Sculpture Triennial, Osaka, Japan October Gallery, London, UK |
1990 | Honorable Mention, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |