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SENGA NENGUDI

 

PO Box 10255, Colorado Springs, CO 80932-1255

 

Email: senga@sengasenga.com

 

1943                 Born – , Chicago, Illinois

 

EDUCATION:

1971                                  California State University at Los Angeles, Ca.  M.A. Sculpture

1966-67                        Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.  Studies in Japanese Culture

1966                                  California State University at Los Angeles, Ca.  B.A. Art/Major, Dance/Minor

 

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:               Back To The TopTop

2007                 “Warp Trance,” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

                    culmination exhibit  Fabric Workshop and Museum residency

2005                “Asp-Rx,” Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC

2004                “Prospect Lake,” Photo Exhibit under the pseudonym Propecia

                    Leigh. Phototroph Gallery, Colorado Springs, Co.

2003                 “R.S.V.P. Retrospective,” Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC

2002                 “Watch!,” Wooten Studio/Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2001                                  “Masking It,” Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2001                                  “Widefield,” Wildfield, Colorado

1998                                  “Rapunsel’s View,” Photo Exhibit under the pseudonym Propecia Leigh. Gertrude’s Restaurant, Colorado Springs, Colorado

1997                                  “Populated Air,” Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC

1996                                  “Wet Night, Early Dawn, Scat-Chant, Pilgrim’s Song”.  Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC

1981                                  “Vestige-‘The Discovery of American by Christopher Columbus’ S.D.”

Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC

1978                                  “Nylon Mesh Series-Recent Work,” Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

1977                 “Recent Work,” Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

1977                                  “Repondez S’il-vous-plait,” Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC

1971                                  California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Ca.


 GROUP EXHIBITIONS:           Back To The TopTop

2007                  “Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980,” Galerie Lelong, New York City

                    “WACK! Art & The Feminist Revolution,” L.A. MOCA, L.A.,Calif.

                          Curator-Connie Butler. Catalogue.

 

2006                  “L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints,” Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC

                          “Strange Powers,” Creative Time, 64E.4thSt., New York City

 

2005                   “Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity,” Santa Fe Art Institute,

New Mexico. Included-Ann Hamilton, James Luna, Nikki Lee.

 

“RxArt,” RX Art Ball, New York City. Included-Robert

Colescott, John Baldessari, Yoko Ono, William Wegman.

 

                        “Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970,”

                        Contemporary Art Museum-Houston, Texas. Curator-Valerie

                        Cassel Oliver. Catalogue. Included-Chakaia Booker, David

                        Hammons, Adrian Piper, William Pope.L, Nari Ward, Fred Wilson.

 

                        “Ephemeral Threads,”  Noyes Museum of Art, New Jersey.  Curator-

                          A.M. Weaver

 

2004                 ”54th Carnegie International 2004-5,” Carnegie Museum of Art.

                   Pittsburgh, Penn. Curator-Laura Hoptman.  Catalogue.

                   Included-Lee Bontecou, Paul Chan, Julie Mehretu, Saul Fletcher.

 

 “Non Toccare La Donna Bianca,” Fondazione Sandretto Re

Rebaudengo. Torino, Italy. Curator-Francesco Bonami. Catalogue.                                 Included-Ellen Gallagher, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat and Shen Yuan.

2002                                  “Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/ California 1950-2000,” San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose, Calif. Curator: Diana Fuller. Catalogue

 

2001                                  “Love Supreme,”La Criee Centre D’Art Contemporain.Rennes, France.  Curator-Elvan Zabunyan.  Included-David Hammons, Carrie Mae Weems, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Lyle Ashton Harris and Lorraine O’Grady.

 

2000                   “Sixteen Pieces: The Influence of Yoruba on Contemporary Artists,”     

The Brickhouse, London, United Kingdom.  Included-Leroy Clarke (Trinidad), Alberto Pitta (Brazil), Afua Praba (Ghana), Cassandra Wilson (USA).

 

1998                                  “Out of Action: Between Performance and Object, 1949-1979,”

Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles,Ca. Curator-Paul Schimmel.  Catalogue

 

Photography Show, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

 

1997                                  “Resonances,” Galerie Art’O. Paris, France.  Curator:Elvan

Zabunyan.  Included-Rene Green, Gary Simmons. Catalogue

 

“Interior Life,” Rush Gallery, NYC. Included-Fred Wilson and Donald Odita.

 

1996                                  “Gallery Artists,” Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC

 

“Incandescent” part of “Now-Here,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen-Humlebaek, Denmark.  Curator: Laura Cottingham.  Included-Janine Antoni, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Adrian Piper, Sue Williams. Catalogue

 

1995                                  “Art Multiple,” Art Fair, Dusseldorf, Germany. Thomas Erben Gallery.  Premiere of multiple “Oaaka” together with works on paper.

 

“Notation on Africanism,” Archibald Arts, NYC. Included-Richard

Hunt, Gerald Jackson, Lorraine O’Grady.

 

“Homecoming,” Watts Towers Art Center, Watts, Ca. 25th Anniversary Exhibition. Included Betye Saar, John Outterbridge.

 

1993                                  “Artists Space-25th Anniversary Show,” Artists Space, NYC.

Nominated by Lorraine O’Grady

 

“Color,” Printed Matter Bookstore at DIA, NYC. In conjunction with publication of New Observation #97. Curator: Adrian Piper

 

1990                                  “Shaping the Spirit: The African-American Art of Charles Abramson, Senga Nengudi, and James Phillips,”Capp Street Project/AVT, Experimental Projects Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.

Guest Curator: Stacey Moss. Review

 

1989                                  “Art As A Verb: The Evolving Continuum,” Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC. Curators:Lowery S. Sims and Dr. Leslie King-Hammond. Catalogue. Review: Michael Brenson, New York Times

 

1988                                  “Art As A Verb: The Evolving Continuum,” Maryland Institute,

College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland.  Travelling. Curators:

Lowery S. Sims and Dr. Leslie King-Hammond. Included-Charles Abramson, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Lorraine O’Grady,

Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Joyce Scott, Martha Jackson-Jarvis. Catalogue

 

1985                  “Carnival-Ritual of Reversal,” Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC. Included-Anthony

Barboza, Maren Hassinger, Ben Jones, Tyrone Mitchell, Jorge Luis Rodriquez, Christy Rupp, Alison Saar, Randy Williams.

 

1982-84                        “Afro-American Abstractions,” Travelling Exhibition. United States.

Curator: April Kingsley.  Included Ellsworth Ausby, Barbara Chase Ribaud, Houston Conwill, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Richard Hunt, Alvin Loving, Tyrone Mitchell, Howardena Pindell, Martin Puryear, William T. Williams. Catalogue

 

1980                 “Remy Presents: Project Grand Central,” Grand Central Station,

NYC. Curator: Allan Schwartzman.  Included-Dara Birnbaum, Brian Eno, Maren Hassinger, Jenny Holzer, Randy Williams. Brochure.

 

“Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States,”, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.  Curators: Kazuko, Ana Mendieta and Zarian.  Eight artists, included Judith Baca, Beverly Buchanan, Lydia Okumura, Selena Whitefeather, Howardena Pindell.  Catalogue with an introduction by Ana Mendieta.  Review

 

“Art Across the Park,” Art Across the Park, Central Park, NYC. Conceived by David Hammons. Curators: Horace Brokington and Gylbert Coker. Included Ellsworth Ausby, Kazuko and Ana Mendieta.

 

“Afro-American Art in the 20th Century: Three Episodes,” Bronx

Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.  Curators: Linda Goode-Bryant, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Sims.  In Collaboration with the Jamaica Arts Center. Episode Three included Houston Conwill, Howardena Pindell, Randy Williams.

 

“Afro-American Abstractions,”P.S.1, NYC

 

1978                                  “Remains,” Emile Lowe Gallery, Hofstau University, New York

 

1979                                  “Freeway Fets,” L.A. Freeway Underpass, Los Angeles, Ca. Public Art

                             Work Sponsored by Brochman Gallery, the C.E.T.A. Program and Cal Trans.

 

“The Process as Art in Situ,” Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC.

Included-David Hammons, Banerjee and Susan Fitzsimmons.

 

“Secrets and Revelations: African-American Women Artists,” Woods

Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

 

“Black History Week Exhibit,” San Bernardino College Art Gallery, Ca.

 

1977                                  “Studio Z: Individual Collective,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long

Beach, Ca.   Included-Maren Hassinger and Franklin Parker.

 

“The Concept as Art,” Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC. Final

segment of the exhibition ‘The Afro-American Artists in the Abstract

Continuum of American Art: 1945-1977’. ‘Contextures’, catalogue

 

“California Black Artists,” Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC

 

“The Whitney Counterweight,” James Yu Gallery, NYC. Included-

Harmony Hammond, David Hammons,  Nancy Spero. Review

 

“Space/Matter,” Women’s Interart Center, New York

 

 

1976                                  “Newcomers 1976,” Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park,

Los Angeles, Ca. Curator: Josine Ianco

 

Cinque Art Gallery, NYC

 

1971                                  “Eight Afro-Americans,” Musee Rath. Geneva, Switzerland. Curator:

Henri Ghent. Included-Romare Bearden, Bob Thompson. Catalogue

 

1970