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BIOGRAFIE
| 1974 | born in Kano, Nigeria |
| 1992 - 1994 | Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) Ile – Ife, Osun State, Nigeria |
| 1995 - 2001 | Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux – Arts (ENSBA) Paris, France |
| 2002 - 2003 | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2005 - 2008 | DasArts, Advanced Studies in the Performing Arts. The Netherlands |
| 2010 - 2012 | Gerriet Rietveld Academy, 2nd year, Fine Arts Department, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2020 | Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, USA Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, USA |
| 2019 | Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa Tate St Ives, Saint Ives, United Kingdom Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden Guerlain FIAC, Guerlain House, Paris, France Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, USA Egmont Palace, Brussels, Belgium Galerie de l’Usine Electrique, Allauch, France Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, Denmark Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, United Kingdom Stadt Galerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, USA La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (Honored with Special Mention Award) Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Otobong Nkanga with Emeka Ogboh named Winners of 2019 Sharjah Biennial Prize) Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, USA Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA Gympie Regional Gallery, Gympie, Australia |
| 2018 | kunst, Bolzano, Italy MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Textiel Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands National Museum Cardiff, United Kingdom Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns City, Australia St Albans Museums and Galleries Trust c/o Verulamium Museum, Albans, United Kingdom Gold Cast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain (MAMAC), Nice, France Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom Villa Médicis - Académie de France à Rome, Rome, Italy Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Australia Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany STUK – House for Dance, Leuven, Belgium NICC, Antwerp, Belgium Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris, France Palais Fesch/Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, Corsica |
| 2017 | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland Blavatnik Building, London, United Kingdom Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark Gladstone Regional Gallery & Museum, Gladstone, Australia Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy Sint-Joriskerk, Antwerp, Belgium Pirelli Hangarbicocca, Milan, Italy Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Musée de L’Orangerie, Paris, France Propositions #1: What we Mean, Utrecht, The Netherlands Musée Zadkine, Paris, France Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Rachel & Israel Pollak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China Musée D’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-Sur-Seine, France Wiels Centre D’Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium Manifesta – The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium Documenta 14, Athens, Greece La Galerie du 5e, Marseille, France Kastell Van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium BOZAR Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium La Box - Ecole nationale supérieure d'art de Bourges, Bourges, France Castello Di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Italy Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen, Belgium Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA The Heong Gallery, Cambridge, United Kingdom Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain Musée International Des Arts Modestes, Sète, France CAAM, Las Palmas, Spain |
| 2016 | Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, South Brisbane, Australia Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Institut D’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Musée Départemental D’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium Centre D’Art Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands EVA International - Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick, Ireland Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 20th Biennale of Sydney, Australia Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA Institut D’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Museo de Arte Contemporâneo de Castilla Y León, León, Spain |
| 2015 | Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Kadist Art Foundation FR, Paris, France Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Haus Der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Daad Galerie, Berlin, Germany Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Lansing, USA Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, USA Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France 13th Biennale de Lyon, La vie moderne, Lyon, France MU.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2014 | Luman Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands RAW Material Company - Center for art, knowledge and society, Dakar, Senegal Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, USA 31st Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon Foreign Exchange, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2013 | Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, Germany Kunst Galleria Museo, Bolzano, Italy Berliner Herbstsalon, Palais Am Festungsgraben, Berlin, Germany Centre D’Art Contemporain, Montreuil, France Göteborg International Biennial For Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden OCAT, Shenzhen, China National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, The Netherlands Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
| 2012 | Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands L'appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco The Tanks At Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Galerie Des Grands Bains Douches De La Plaine, Marseille, France Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany Biennale Regard Benin 2012, Cotonou, Benin 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands Kasteel D’Aspremont-Lynden, Oud-Rekem, Belgium Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris, France Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands La Fondation D’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany |
| 2011 | Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South-Africa The Altered Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort, The Netherlands Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Art-o-Rama, Marseille, France CCA, Lagos, Nigeria Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands La Galerie – Centre D’Art Contemporain, Noisy-Le-Sec, France Center For Art, Knowledge and Society, Dakar, Senegal Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland La B.A.N.K Galerie, Paris, France Centro de Expositiones Fernán Gómez, Madrid, Spain |
| 2010 | Vitrinegalerij, Antwerp, Belgium World Festival of Black Arts and Culture, Dakar, Senegal Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands CBK, Dordrecht, The Netherlands 29th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Museo D’Arte Contemporaneo Della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy El Centro Cultural Cajastur Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijon, Spain Staatstheater Grosses Haus, Braunschweig, Germany INVIVA, London, United Kingdom Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Common Ground, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Musée Du Quai Branly, Branly, France Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2009 | Centre Culturel Français, Pointe Noire, République du Congo Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Galerie Sanaa, Utrecht, The Netherlands 3rd AiM International Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, The Netherlands Centre Photographique D’ile de France, Pontault-Combault, France Galerie Nomad, Brussels, Belgium L’Appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco |
| 2008 | Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA This is now, 1, Johannesburg, South Africa Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, USA |
| 2007 | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada NDSM-Shipyard, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Snap Judgments, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2006 | Triennale de Luanda, Luanda, Angola 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Las Palmas, Spain Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Miami Art Central, Miami, USA Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, MB Zwolle, The Netherlands Münchner Stadtmuseum, München, Germany Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Snap Judgments, New York, USA Galerie 14, Paris, France |
| 2005 | Centre Pompidou, Paris, France The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2004 | The Black Box, Singapore 2004 Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof, Neuekirchen, Germany Stiching Artwalk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany Galerie Peter Hermann, Berlin, Germany Epifyten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2003 | Rijksakademmie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8th Havana Biennial, Havanna, Cuba MIP, Center of Experimentation and Information in Art, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2002 | Rijksakademmie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium FNAC, Paris, France Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France 5th Biennale of African Contemporary Art, Dakar, Senegal Institut Français à Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo 1st Biennale di Fotografia Africana, Milan, Italy Fotofest 2002, Houston, USA |
| 2001 | 4th Biennale de Bamako, Mali |
| 1999 | Chateau D’Oiron, Oiron, France |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
| 2013 - 2014 | Beliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD (Artists-in Berlin Program of the German Academic Exchange Service |
| 2011 | Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germanay |
| 2010 | Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao Center for Contemporary Arts, Residency Program, Curacao, The Netherland Antilles |
| 2009 | Centre Culturel Français, Pointe-Noire, Congo |
| 2005 | DasArts, Trustfund Stichting/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science |
| 2003 | Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DCO/IC. The Netherlands Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands |
| 2002 | Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (AFAA) et Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DAP), France Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands |
| 2000 | Residency Program, Houilles, France |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| Studio Museum Harlem Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) Rabo Art Collection (Rabobank) Weltkulturen Museum FRAC Lorraine Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art Kadist Art Foundation Mu.ZEE Museum Folkwang AkzoNobel Collection Société Genérale Art Collection Centre National des Arts Plastiques - CNAP Centre Pompidou FRAC Corse Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA) Robeco Art Collection Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Fondation Sindika Dokolo Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Zwolle Stedelijk Museum Arnhem Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Tate Modern |
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