El Anatsui

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2022

- Part I, 2013-2022, Galerie RX, Paris, France

-  Freedom,  Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, Afrique du Sud. 

- El Anatsui : Shard Song, Efie Gallery, Dubai, Emirats Arabe Unis

2021
- Season Africa 2020, Conciergerie de Paris, Paris, France.

2020
- Focus on El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, UK.

- El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar.

- El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Museum of Fine Art, Bern, Switzerland.

- El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.

2019    
- El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Haus Der Kunst Munich, Munich Germany.

- El Anatsui: Material Wonder, October Gallery, London, UK.

- El Anatsui: Recent Works, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, USA.

2018    
- El Anatsui: Meyina, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.                                                                                    

- Ofrendas, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA.

2017     
- Proximately, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.                                                                                                                                                                               

- Benchmarks: New Prints by El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, UK.

- Prints, Royal Academy, London, UK.

- El Anatsui: Topology of Generosity, Bakarat Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.

- El Anatsui: The Beginning and the End, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium.

2016
- El Anatsui, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

- El Anatsui: New Works, October Gallery, London, UK.

- Afrikas stjerne - Monumentale værker af El Anatsui, Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, South Jutland, Denmark.

- El Anatsui: Five Decades, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia.

2015
- El Anatsui, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.

- El Anatsui: Five Decades, The School, Kinderhook, New York, USA.

- El Anatsui, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway.

- El Anatsui: Selected Works, October Gallery, London, UK.

2014
- El Anatsui: Theory of SE, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, China.

- El Anatsui, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, USA.

- El Anatsui: Playing with Chance, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria.

- El Anatsui: New Worlds, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA.

- El Anatsui: Trains of Thoughts, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA.

- Metas, Mnuchin Gallery, New-York, USA.

2013
- TSIATSIA – Searching for Connection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

- El Anatsui: Pot of Wisdom, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA.

2012-2015
- Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, Akron Art Museum, USA (puis au Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; Des Moines Art Center, USA; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA; et Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA).

2012
- Broken Bridge II, High Line, New York, USA.

- El Anatsui: Post of Wisdom, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA.

- Stitch in Time, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.

- Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India.

2011
- El Anatsui, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA.

2010
- El Anatsui, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA.

- El Anatsui: Gli, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA.

- When I Last Wrote To You About Africa, traveling exhibition until 2012 (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada;  Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, USA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA; Denver Art Museum, USA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA; Museum for African Art, New York, USA).

- A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Works of El Anatsui, traveling exhibition until 2011 (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japon; The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Japon; Tsuruoka Art Forum, Japon; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japon).

2009
- El Anatsui: Process and Project, BRIC Contemporary Art, New York, USA.

- El Anatsui, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, USA.

2008
- Zebra Crossing, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA.

- Earth Growing Roots, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA.

- El Anatsui: Gawu, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA.

2007
- El Anatsui: Gawu, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, USA.

- El Anatsui: Gawu, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.

- El Anatsui: Gawu, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, USA.

2006
- El Anatsui: Nyekor, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy.

- El Anatsui: Asi, David Krut Projects, New York, USA.

2005
- Danudo: Recent Sculptures of El Anatsui, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA.

- El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, UK.

2003
- El Anatsui: Gawu, traveling exhibition (Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK; October Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA).

2002
- El Anatsui: Recent Works, October Gallery, London, UK.

1998
- El Anatsui: As Sculpted History of Africa, October Gallery, London UK.

1997
- Hakpa, French Cultural Center, Lagos, Nigeria.

1995
- El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, UK.

1993
- So Far: Drawings, Paintings, Prints 1963-1993, Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria.

1991
- Old and New: Exhibition of Sculptures in Assorted Wood by El Anatsui, National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.

1987
- Venovize: Ceramic Sculpture by El Anatsui, Cornwall Colledge of Further & Higher Education, Redruth, UK.

- Pieces of Wood, Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria.

1982
- Sculptures, Photographs, Drawings, Institut Goethe, Lagos, Nigeria.

1980
- Wood Carvings, Cummington Community of Arts, Cummington, USA.

1979
- Broken Pots: Sculpture by El Anatsui, Consulat britannique, Enugu, Nigeria and Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

1976
- Wooden Wall Plaques by El Anatsui, Asele Art Gallery, Nsukka, Nigeria.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2020
- New to the Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA.

- Layers, Labanque, Béthune, France.

- Atmospheres: Artists of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK.

- New Beginnings: The Epoch of African Art, Pure Lagos Gallery, Norfolk, USA.

- Creating Vital Space - 50 years of prints by Black Artists, Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia, USA.

- Re-Materialize, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.

- Grace Before Jones: Cameras, Disco, Studio, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK.

- 252nd Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

2019
- 1st Ghana Pavillion, 58th Venice Biennial, Italy.

- Saison d’art 2019, Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire, France.

- Art Basel, Hong Kong 2019, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China.

- Frieze New York, Randall’s Island Park, New York, USA.

- The Light Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA.

- Prête-moi ton Rêve, Maison de l’Union, Casablanca, Morocco.

2018
- African Metropolis. An Imaginary City. MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy.

- Ceremonial Exhibition: Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters. New York, USA.

- Second Life. Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Egypt.

- Carnegie International, 57th Edition 2018, Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh USA.

- BRAFA Art Fair, Bruxelles, Belgium.

- Art Brussels, 2018, Bruxelles, Belgique.

- Deviations, Bargoin Museum, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

- Dak’Art Biennial 2018, Dakar, Senegal.

- Exhibition by the Masters, Mydrim Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos.

- MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Southbank VIC, Australia.

- 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy f Arts, London, UK.

- Art Basel 2018, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

- Summer 2018, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, USA.

- Masterpiece London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, UK.

- Resignification, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Italiy.

- Joburg Art Fair 2018, Sandton Convention Centre, Sandton, South Africa.

- MAD Collects : The Future of Craft Part 1, MAD, New-York, USA.

- All Things Being Equal…, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa.

- Parking of Pavement, Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, New York, USA.

- South South / Between Land and Sea: I don’t understand what you’re talking about but I know what you mean, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Aafrica.

- Art Basel, Miami Beach 2018, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, USA.

- Investec: Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

- Intimate Immensity, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA.

- The Crime of Mr Adolf Loos, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium.

- Ex Africa : Storie e Identità di un’Arte Universale, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy.

- Infinitive Mutability, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, China.

- Second Life. Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco.

- Carnegie International, 57th Edition 2018, Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, USA.

2017
- KIAF 2017, Art Seoul, Galerie RX, Seoul, South Korea.

- Afriques Capitales : Cape of Good Hope Here We Come, Lille 3000, Lille, France.

- 9th Season of Art, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.

- Baku: Franz Ackerman, El Anatsui, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Wilson. Gazeli Art House. London, UK.

- A Journey: El Anatsui, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis. Kewenig, Berlin, Germany.

- La Terra Inquieta/The Restless Earth, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy.

- Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.

- Les Eclaireurs : Sculpteurs d’Afrique, Avignon, France.

- Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

- Three Dimensions: Modern and Contemporary Approaches To Relief And Scluptures, Acquavellas Gallleries, New York, USA.

- Carnegies International 57th Edition, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, USA.

- Domestic Alien, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan.

- El Anatsui: Meyina, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

- El Anastui : Ugwu, Domain of Chaumnot-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.

2016
- African Artists as Innovators, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.

- The Woven Arc, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center Harvard
University, Cambridge, USA.

- Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Center de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelone,
Spain.

- Green Pastures : In Memory of Thornton Dial Sr., High Museum, Atlanta, Etats-Unis.

- Festival International des Jardins, Domain of Chaumont sur Loire, Chaumont sur Loire, France.

- Summer Exhibitions 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

-  Art Basel Unlimited 2016, Basel, Switzerland.

- Marrakech Biennial 6: Not New Now, Marrakech, Morocco.

- Ugwu, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.

- El Anatsui, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Maya Lin: Of A Different Nature, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA.

- Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

2015-2017
- Garden Festival, Le Fenil Gallery, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.

- Re : Pursposed, The John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA.

2015
- Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, USA.

- Re:Purposed, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State
University, Sarasota, USA.
- Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

- Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, USA.

- The Contemporary II: Who Interprets the World, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

- 247th Summer Edition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

- Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.

- Chaumont-sur-Loire Arts and Nature Programs, Le Fenil Gallery, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.

- Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA.

- Embracing Space and Color: Art On & Off the Wall, Vero Beach Museum of Art, USA.

- Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection, Galerie Cristin Tierney, New York, USA.

- Piece Work, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA.

- Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

- Atopolis: WIELS @ Mons 2015, Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium.

- Standing and Hanging, Galerie Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA.

2014
- Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, New-York, USA.

- The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain.

- 246th Summer Edition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.

- Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.

2013
- Boca Raton Museum of Art, USA.

- Chosen, 5 Beekman Street, New York, USA.

- Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.

- Art and Textiles, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany.

- Masters of Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK.

- ArtZuid 2013, Fondation ArtZuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

- 245th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, Royaume-Uni.

2012
- 1st Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay.

- Summer Exhibition 2012, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (Façade of the Burlington House).

- 18th Sydney Biennial, Australia.

- Paris Triennial 2012, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (organised by Okwui Enwezor, Claire Staebler, Emilie Renard, Melanie Bouteloup and Abdellah Karroum).

- We Face Forward, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.

- Dialogues with Contemporary Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

- African Cosmos: Stellar Art, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA.

- Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India.

2011-2012
- Environment and Object in Recent African Art, Skidmore College Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA (traveling exhibition: Anderson Gallery, Virginia, Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, USA).

- Architectural Environments for Tomorrow: New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan.

2011
- The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (organized by Caroline Bourgeois).

- Hunters and Gatherers: The Art of Assemblage, Sotheby’s, New York, USA.

- ARS 11, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland.

- Art It Is! Africa Applauded, The Mojo Gallery, Dubai, UAE.

- The Splendour of Truth, the Beauty of Charity, Vatican, Rome, Italiy.

- Africa Interweave: textile Diasporas, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, USA.

2010
- A Collective Diary, an African Contemporary Journey, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel.

- Who Knows Tomorrow, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.

- Human Rites, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA.

2009
- Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain.

- Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India.

- Against Exclusion, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.

- Transavangarde, October Gallery, London, UK.

- 3rd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art - Against Exclusion, Moscow, Russia.

- Homecoming, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana.

- Embrace !, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA.

- Intramoenia Extra Art: On the Ground, Underground, Barletta’s Castle, Barletta, Italy.

2008
- Angaza Afrika, October Gallery, London, UK.

- Masterpieces of Modern Design: Selections from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, USA.

- Sonsbeek 2008 : Grandeur, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, Netherlands.

- Juego Africano de lo Contemporáneo : Pre-figuraciones Postcoloniales, MACUF, Corunna, Spain.

- World Histories, Des Moines Art Center, USA.

- Art Basel 39, Basel, Switzerland.

- Recycling: The Whole House, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstenter, Hadmar, Norway.

- Grandeur, 10th Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition, Sonsbeek, Netherlands .

- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA.

- The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA.

- The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design without End, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

- Prospect.1, New Orleans, USA.

2007
- Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

- Sarjah Biennal 8, Sharjah, UAE.

- From Courage to Freedom: El Anatsui/Hazoumé/Owusu-Ankoma, October Gallery, London, UK.

- Contemporary African Art from the Collection of William Jones, Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Living Masters, Guaranty Trust Bank, Lagos, Nigeria.

- Trans Cape: Contemporary African Art on the Move, Cape Town, South Africa.

- Still Life: Art Ecology & Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates.

- Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.

- Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, 52nd Venice Biennial, Italy.

- Un/Fair Trade: The Art of Injustice, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.

- Art, Newark, USA.

- Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA.

- BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel.

2006
- The Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center of Arts, San Francisco, USA.

- Dak'Art 2006, 7ème Biennial de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal.

- The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, traveling exhibition in the USA and Japan.

- Body of Evidence, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA.

- Altered, Stitched and Gathered, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA.

- Poiesis, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA.

- Expanding Africa: New Art, New Directions, Newark Museum, Newark, USA.

- Afrique-Europe: Rêves Croisés, Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium.

- Triennal de Luanda, Angola.

- Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA.

2005
- Out There, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, UK.

- In the Making: Materials and Process, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

- AKA... of Age 2005, Maison de France, Lagos, Nigeria.

2004
- Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, traveling exhibition (Museum Kunstpalast, Centre Pompidou, Moderna Museet...).

- A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water, 5th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea.

- Intelligence Now!, October Gallery, London, UK.

2003
- Selected Works, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA.

- Hommage to Asele, National Museum, Lagon, Nigeria.

- Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Villa Groppallo, Vado Liguire, Italy.

- Africa Informs, October Gallery, London, UK.

- Transfers, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.

2002
- International 2002, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK.

2001
- Jazz and Visual Improvisations, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA.

- News from the Front, October Gallery, London, UK.

- Africas: The Artist and the City, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

- The Happy Face of Globalization, 1st Albissola Ceramics Biennial, Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea and Mueo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola, Italy.

- Ebony Soliloquy: A Five Year Retrospective, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, USA.

- Elf Village, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

2000
- Encounters with the Contemporary, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.

- El Tiempo de Africa, Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands and Consejeria de Cultura de Comunidad, Madrid, Spain.

- Messagers de la Terre, Rur’Art-Espace d’Art Contemporain de Lycée Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouillé, France.

1999
- New Colours from Old Worlds : Contemporary Art from West Africa, October Gallery, London, UK.

- Les Champs de la Sculpture, Champs Elysées, Paris, France.

- The Independent, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK.

- Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK.

1998
- Riddle of the Spirits – Twelve African Artists, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA.

- By Hand and By Computer, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA.

- Osaka Triennale: Sculpture, Osaka, Japan.

- Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stuttgart, Germany.

1997
- The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.

- Free Form and Precision, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA.

1996
- Africana, Sala 1, Rome, Italy.

- AKA ’96, Bona Gallery, Enugu, Nigeria.

- El Anatsui & Sol LeWitt, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA.

- Transforms, October Gallery, London, UK.

- West African Sculpture-East African Painting, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA.

- Tranvangarde: Cutting-edge Work from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, October Gallery, New York, USA.

- Container ’96-Art across Oceans, Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark.

- Images of Africa, Torpedohallen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

- Group Exhibition, Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria.

1995
- Art in the Shadow, Nigerian Pavilion, Africus: 1st Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa.

- Uli Art-Master Works, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA.

- Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden.

- An Inside Story: African Art of Our Time, traveling exhibition in Japan.

- Osaka Triennale: Sculpture, Osaka, Japan.

- Contemporary African Art, World Intellectual Property Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland.

- The Right to Hope, Johannesburg Art Gallery, since shown in Cairo, Amman, Gaza, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv.

- Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany.

1994
- AKA ’94, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.

- Arte/Sociedad/Reflexions, 5the Havana Biennial, Cuba.

1993
- AKA ’93, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.

- New Currents ’93: Avant-Garde Nigerian Art, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.

- Six African Artists, October Gallery, London, UK.

1992
- AKA ’92, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.

- Arte Amazonas, Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

- Klima Global, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin; Ludwig Forum, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.

1991
- Works by a Group of African Artists, The World Bank Art Society, Washington DC, USA.

- AKA ’91, Bona Gallery, Enugu; National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.

- Sculptors Guild of Nigeria: Inaugural Exhibition, Murtala Mohammed Park, Enugu, Nigeria.

- El Desafio de Colonization, 4th Hanava Biennial, Cuba.

- Il Sud del Mondo: L’altra arte contemporanea, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporaneo, Marsala, Italy.

1990
- Contemporary African Artists: Changing Tradition, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia; Chicago Public Library Center, Chicago, USA.

- AKA ’90, Hotel Presidential, Enugu; Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria.

- Dimensione Futuro: l’Artista e lo Spazio, 44th Venice Biennial, Italy.

- The Calabash 1st Art Exhibition, The Calabash, Lagos, Nigeria.

1989
- AKA ’89, Hotel Presidential, Enugu; National Gallery of Art, Lagos, Nigeria.

- Zeitgenössische Nigerianische Kunst, Bonn, Bocholt and Mönchengladbach, Germany.

1988
- AKA ’88, a.o. National Gallery of Art, Lagos, Nigeria.

- SSART Exhibition, ANA Gallery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

- An Exhibition of Sculptures in Wood: Thoughts and Process, Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria.

- Walls and Gates, Avant Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria.

1987
- AKA ’87, Hotel Presidential, Enugu; National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria.

1986
- Nigerian-German Prints, University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria.

- AKA ’86, Inaugural exhibition of the AKA Circle of Exhibiting Artists, French Centre/Ministry of Education, Enugu; Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria.

1983
- Four Contemporary Artists, Mintec Galleries, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

1982
- Okiki 10th Anniversary Exhibition, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

1981
- Drawing on the World, Bilingham Art Gallery, Billingham; Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough; House of Commons Gallery, Westminster, London, UK.

1979
- The Nsukka School, Art Gallery of the Rivers State Council for Arts and Culture, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

- Christian Arts in Nigeria, Holy Trinity Cathedral Hall, Onitsha, Nigeria.

1975
- Dyed Fabric Wallhangings, Burnt-Scorched Wooden Wall Plaques, Institute of African Studies Gallery, University of Nigeria.

1974
- Tekarts Expo 5, Accra Arts Center, Accra, Ghana.

 

AWARDS

2017
- Praemium Imperiale 2017, sculpture

2015
- Golden Lion, Venice Biennial

2013 
- Charles Wollaston Award, 245th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

1999
- Public’s Prize, 7th Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Stuttgart, Germany

1998
- Bronze Prize, 9th Triennale of Sculpture, Osaka, Japan

1995
- "Kansai Telecasting Corporation" Award, Triennale of Sculpture, Osaka, Japan

1990
- Honorable Mention, 44th Venice Biennial, Italy

PUBLICATIONS

2014
- New Worlds, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.

2010
- When I Last Wrote to You about Africa, Museum for African Art.