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El Anatsui-Presenters Bios Skowhegan AD2020 EL ANATSUI BY OCTOBER GALLERY NANA OFORIATTA AYIM BY GILBERT ASANTE ABIGAIL DEVILLE BY MELISSA BLACKALL DAMIAN LENTINI BY MAXIMILIAN GEUTER CHIKA O. OKEKE-AGULU EL ANATSUI (F '07) is an internationally acclaimed artist who transforms simple ABIGAIL DEVILLE (A '07) is a site-specic installation artist that exhibits materials into complex assemblages that create distinctive visual impact. He uses across the United States and Europe. DeVille received an M.F.A. from Yale University resources typically discarded such as liquor bottle caps, printing plates and cassava and a B.F.A. from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of the 2014-15 graters to create sculpture that dees categorization. His use of these materials reects fellowship at the Radclie Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the 2015 his interest in reuse, transformation, and an intrinsic desire to connect to his continent Creative Capital grant, and the 2015 OBIE Award for Design. DeVille is the 2017-18 of Africa while transcending the limitations of place. His work can interrogate the Chuck Close Henry W. and Marion T. Mitchell Rome Prize fellow. history of colonialism and draw connections between consumption, waste, and the environment, but at the core is his unique formal language that distinguishes his practice. DeVille’s work has exhibited as venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Anatsui is well-known for large scale sculpture composed of thousands of folded and Angeles; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, crumpled pieces of metal sourced from local alcohol recycling stations and bound Pittsburgh, PA; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; and Cooper together with copper wire. ese intricate works, which can grow to be massive in Gallery at Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, to name a few. She has scale, are both luminous and weighty, meticulously fabricated yet malleable. He leaves designed sets for theatrical productions at venues such as the Stratford Festival (2014), the installations open and encourages the works to take dierent forms every time Harlem Stage (2016), La Mama (2015), JACK (2014-16), and Joe’s Pub (2014). they are installed. In 2015, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the Venice Biennale’s highest honor. In 2019 Haus der Kunst presented a wide-ranging traveling DAMIAN LENTINI is a curator at Haus der Kunst in Munich. Aer obtaining survey of his work titled El Anatsui: Monumental Scale, curated by Okwui Enwezor his doctoral degree at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Lentini lectured on the and Chika Okeke-Agulu and accompanied by a catalogue published by Prestel. history and theory of modern and contemporary art, as well as worked on various Anatsui was born in Ghana and currently lives and works between Ghana and Nigeria. exhibition projects in Melbourne and Berlin, before permanently moving to Munich in 2015. At Haus der Kunst, Lentini has been extensively involved in exhibition projects involving artists such as El Anatsui, Sarah Sze, Harun Farocki, Jörg Immendor, Hans Haacke, Khvay Samnang, Raqs Media Collective, and Forensic Architecture (among NANA OFORIATTA AYIM is a writer, lmmaker and art historian. She others), as well as working on the landmark exhibition project Postwar: Art between the studied Russian and Politics and worked for the Eastern European section of the Pacic and the Atlantic, 1945–1965. Department of Political Aairs of the United Nations in New York. She then went on to do a Masters in African Art History. She is a founder of the ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge through which she has pioneered such projects as e Mobile Museum and e Pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia; curating groundbreaking CHIKA O. OKEKE-AGULU is professor of African and African Diaspora Art exhibitions such as Ghana's rst pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019; and speaking at Princeton University. His books include Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life (Skira globally on cultural narratives and institution-building in countries like Ghana, Editore, 2020), Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Skira Editore, 2016); Postcolonial Senegal, the UK, US, Germany, Holland, Denmark, France and Brazil. Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (Duke, 2015); and (with Okwui Enwezor), Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (Damiani, 2010). He is She has made several lms, a cross of ction, travel essay, and documentary, that have co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and has co-organized several art been shown at museums like e New Museum, Tate Modern, and LACMA. She has exhibitions, including El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019), written for publications like frieze, ArtNews, African Metropolitan Architecture; and her Who Knows Tomorrow (Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2010), 5th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, rst novel, e God Child, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2019. She is the 2004), e Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 1994 recipient of various awards and honours, having been named one of the Apollo ’40 (Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2001), and the Nigerian section at the First Johannesburg under 40’; one of 50 African Trailblazers by e Africa Report; one of 12 African Biennale, 1995. Okeke-Agulu serves on the advisory boards of the Hyundai Tate women making history by Okayafrica; and a Quartz Africa Innovator. She has been Research Centre, the Tate Modern, London, and the Center for the Study of Visual Arts, appointed to the Advisory Council of Oxford University from January 2020, will be a National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. He is on the executive board of Princeton in MOMA Curatorial Leadership Fellow from March 2020, and a Principal Investigator Africa, and the editorial board of African Studies Review. for the Action for African Cultural Restitution from April 2020. EL ANATSUI (F '07) is an internationally acclaimed artist who transforms simple ABIGAIL DEVILLE (A '07) is a site-specic installation artist that exhibits materials into complex assemblages that create distinctive visual impact. He uses across the United States and Europe. DeVille received an M.F.A. from Yale University resources typically discarded such as liquor bottle caps, printing plates and cassava and a B.F.A. from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of the 2014-15 graters to create sculpture that dees categorization. His use of these materials reects fellowship at the Radclie Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the 2015 his interest in reuse, transformation, and an intrinsic desire to connect to his continent Creative Capital grant, and the 2015 OBIE Award for Design. DeVille is the 2017-18 of Africa while transcending the limitations of place. His work can interrogate the Chuck Close Henry W. and Marion T. Mitchell Rome Prize fellow. history of colonialism and draw connections between consumption, waste, and the environment, but at the core is his unique formal language that distinguishes his practice. DeVille’s work has exhibited as venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Anatsui is well-known for large scale sculpture composed of thousands of folded and Angeles; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, crumpled pieces of metal sourced from local alcohol recycling stations and bound Pittsburgh, PA; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; and Cooper together with copper wire. ese intricate works, which can grow to be massive in Gallery at Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, to name a few. She has scale, are both luminous and weighty, meticulously fabricated yet malleable. He leaves designed sets for theatrical productions at venues such as the Stratford Festival (2014), the installations open and encourages the works to take dierent forms every time Harlem Stage (2016), La Mama (2015), JACK (2014-16), and Joe’s Pub (2014). they are installed. In 2015, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the Venice Biennale’s highest honor. In 2019 Haus der Kunst presented a wide-ranging traveling DAMIAN LENTINI is a curator at Haus der Kunst in Munich. Aer obtaining survey of his work titled El Anatsui: Monumental Scale, curated by Okwui Enwezor his doctoral degree at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Lentini lectured on the and Chika Okeke-Agulu and accompanied by a catalogue published by Prestel. history and theory of modern and contemporary art, as well as worked on various Anatsui was born in Ghana and currently lives and works between Ghana and Nigeria. exhibition projects in Melbourne and Berlin, before permanently moving to Munich in 2015. At Haus der Kunst, Lentini has been extensively involved in exhibition projects involving artists such as El Anatsui, Sarah Sze, Harun Farocki, Jörg Immendor, Hans Haacke, Khvay Samnang, Raqs Media Collective, and Forensic Architecture (among NANA OFORIATTA AYIM is a writer, lmmaker and art historian. She others), as well as working on the landmark exhibition project Postwar: Art between the studied Russian and Politics and worked for the Eastern European section of the Pacic and the Atlantic, 1945–1965. Department of Political Aairs of the United Nations in New York. She then went on to do a Masters in African Art History. She is a founder of the ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge through which she has pioneered such projects as e Mobile Museum and e Pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia; curating groundbreaking CHIKA O. OKEKE-AGULU is professor of African and African Diaspora Art exhibitions such as Ghana's rst pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019; and speaking at Princeton University. His books include Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life (Skira globally on cultural narratives and institution-building in countries like Ghana, Editore, 2020), Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Skira Editore, 2016); Postcolonial Senegal, the UK, US, Germany, Holland, Denmark, France and Brazil.
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