词条 | Olu Oguibe |
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| name = Olu Oguibe | image = Olu Oguibe.jpg | image_size = | caption = Olu Oguibe | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|10|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Aba, Eastern Nigeria | field = Conceptual art | alma_mater = University of Nigeria, Nsukka School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | work_institution = University of Connecticut | doctoral_advisor = John Picton | prizes = State of Connecticut Governor's Arts Award (2013); Arnold Bode Prize (2017) | footnotes = }}Olu Oguibe (born 14 October 1964) is a Nigerian-born American artist and intellectual.[1] Professor of Art and African-American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York City, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.[2] He is also an art historian, art curator, and leading contributor to post-colonial theory and new information technology studies.{{Citation needed|date=May 2007}}. Oguibe was honoured with the State of Connecticut Governor's Arts Award for excellence and lifetime achievement on 15 June 2013.[3] Early life and educationBorn on 14 October 1964 in Aba, Nigeria,[4] Oguibe was educated in Nigeria and England. In 1986, he earned a degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Nigeria.[5] In 1992, he received a PhD in art history from the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London for his thesis "Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West" (also the title of his 1995 book).[6] Art and teachingOguibe taught critical theory at Goldsmiths College before moving to the United States.{{Citation needed|date=May 2007}} To date his art has been shown in major museums and galleries around the world including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Whitechapel Gallery and the Barbican Center in London; Migros Museum, Zurich; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, among many others; as well as in the Havana, Busan, and Johannesburg biennials, and most recently at the 2007 Venice Biennial. His public art works may be found in Germany, Japan and Korea. Oguibe has previously taught in several colleges including the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of South Florida where he held the Stuart Golding Endowed Chair in African Art.[7] His monumental public sculpture, Monument to Strangers and Refugees, was commissioned for Documenta 14 (2017). The concrete obelisk, inscribed in gold with a verse from Matthew 25:35, "I was a stranger and you took me in," in German, English, Arabic, and Turkish, was designed for Königsplatz (King’s Square) in Kassel. For the work, Oguibe was awarded the Arnold Bode Prize in July 2017. International curatorHe has also served as curator or co-curator for numerous exhibitions. These include the 2nd Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art in Genoa and Albisola, Italy, in 2003; Vidarte 2002: International Video and Media Art Festival at the Palacio Postal, Mexico City, in 2002; Century City at the Tate Modern, London, in 2001; Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa for the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, and Five Continents and One City: 3rd International Salon of Painting at the Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City, in 2000. He has served as advisor for the Dakar, Johannesburg, and Havana biennials and as critic-in-residence at the Art Omi International artists’ residency.[8] Writer and criticOguibe’s critical and theoretical writings have appeared in several key volumes including The Dictionary of Art, Art History and its Methods, Art in Theory 1900-2000, The Visual Culture Reader, The Third Text Reader on Art and Culture, The Black British Culture and Society Reader, and Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985 to the Present, as well as numerous serials such as Frieze, Flash Art International, Art Journal, Texte zur Kunst, Zum Thema, Third Text and Criterios. His most recent books include Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace (MIT Press, 2000) and The Culture Game (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). References{{commonscat|Olu Oguibe}}1. ^Olu Oguibe. Retrieved 29 June 2006. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Oguibe, Olu}}2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianofi.com/fellowship-opportunities/smithsonian-institution-fellowship-program/past-smithsonian-institution-fellowship-program-awardees/|title=Past Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program Awardees {{!}} Smithsonian Fellowships and Internships|website=www.smithsonianofi.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-02}} 3. ^"Three In Connecticut To Receive Governor's Arts Awards", Hartford Courant. 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/olu.htm|title=The Poetics of Line|website=africa.si.edu|access-date=2018-01-02}} 5. ^iniva: Olu Oguibe {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725093753/http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/o/oguibe_olu |date=2009-07-25 }} 6. ^Olu Oguibe, [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uzo-Egonu-African-Artist-West/dp/0947753087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442422698&sr=8-1&keywords=uzo+egonu Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West], Third Text Publications, 1995. {{ISBN|978-0947753085}}. 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.graphicstudio.usf.edu/cam/exhibitions/1997_09_space/space.html|title=Cross/ing {{!}} Exhibitions {{!}} USF CAM Contemporary Art Museum {{!}} Institute for Research in Art|website=www.graphicstudio.usf.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-01-02}} 8. ^Art Omi. 16 : 1964 births|Living people|American artists|American people of Nigerian descent|Art curators|Nigerian artists|University of Nigeria, Nsukka alumni|American male non-fiction writers|American art historians|Nigerian art historians|University of Connecticut faculty|African-American academics|Nigerian academics|Alumni of SOAS, University of London|People from Aba, Abia|Nigerian emigrants to the United States |
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