1984M.F.A., Painting and Drawing.,
University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia, USA
1980B.A.
Fine Art (with First Class Honours), University
of Ife, Ile-Ife,
Nigeria.
1994 P.G.C.E.(Post Graduate Certificate in Education)
Canterbury,
Christ Church College, University of Kent, England.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016Skoto Gallery, New York
2014 N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art,
Detroit, Michigan
2011Skoto
Gallery, New York
2006Skoto
Gallery, New York
2003 Accona
Gallery, Darmstadt, Germany
2000 Swiss
Cottage Gallery, Camden, London
2000Charlotte
Street Gallery, London
2000 Kunst Praxis Dialogue,Frankfurt
1999 Bilder + Object, DKD, Wiesbaden, Germany
1999 The
Horniman Museum, London
1998Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, Kent, UK
1998 Kunststation,
Kollmitzberg, Austria
1997Maidstone
Gallery, Maidstone, Kent
1997 Galerie
Goethe 53, Munich, Germany
1997Galerie Hartl und
Hermenau, Holzkirchen, Germany
1996Hartgalerie,
Germering,
Munich, Germany
1994Kunst Praxis Dialogue, Frankfurt
1995Iwalewa-Haus,
Bayreuth, Germany
1989Africa Centre, London
1987Franco-German
Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2018Smithsonian National Museum of African
Art, Washington DC; Visionary: Viewpoints
onAfrica's
Art
2018Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz New York;
; ABSTRACT
MINDED: Works by Six Contemporary
African Artists;curated by me
- Osi
Audu;
opens January 24,
2018, and
travels to the August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA
in April 2018
2017Newark Museum, New Jersey; Arts of Global
Africa
2017N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art,
Detroit, Michigan; ABSTRACT
MINDED: Works
by
Six Contemporary African Artists;curated by me
- Osi
Audu; show
travelling to the
Samuel Dorsky Museum,
SUNY New Paltz, New York in January 2018, and the
August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA in
April 2018
2017Miller Gallery, Otterbein University,
Westerterville, Ohio; HOME:Contemporary
African
Artists Consider Place & Identity in Our
Connected World,
curated by Carol Boram-Hays
2017Morton Fine Art Gallery, Washington DC - UNTITLED
2015VENICE
BIENNALE, Collateral Event - Frontiers
Reimagined - Museo Di Palazzo
Grimani, Venice, Italy. Exhibition
titled - Frontiers
Reimagined,
curated by Sundaram Tagore, and Marius Kwint
- May 6 - November 22, 2015
2015ArtsWestchester
Gallery, 31 Mamaroneck
Ave. White Plains, New York, NEA Funded
exhibition titled - Crossing
Borders - curated by Kathleen
Reckling
2014Morton Fine Art Gallery, Washington DC
-AFRICAN
ORIGINS: 4 Contemporary Artists
Born in Africa and Living in the US.
2014Sainsburys Institute for Art – Emma
Jonathan Fund exhibition,UK
2012Newark
Museum,
Newark, New Jersey (work on permanent display)
2010AFRICA NOW, Bonhams, New York,
2010FIFA 2010 FINE ART
PROJECT, Cape Town, South Africa
2009Skoto
Gallery, New York.
2007Wellcome
Trust Gallery, London – (work on permanent display)
2006Body of Evidence, Smithsonian
Institution, National
Museum of African Art
2005World
Museum, Liverpool
2003Museum of the mind , British Museum, London
2003Journeys and
Destinations,Smithsonian Institution, National
Museum of African Art
1999African
Worlds, (Permanent Exhibition) The Horniman
Museum, LONDON
1998Africa
Africa, Tobu Museum, Tokyo
1998The Tokushima Modern Art Museum,
Japan
1998Himeji City Museum of
Art, Japan
1998Koriyama
City Museum of Art, Japan
1998Marugame
Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
1998The
Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan.
1997Yoruba
Diaspora, October Gallery, London
1997Diversity
in Contemporary African Art. The Ohio State University, USA
1996An
Inside Story: African Art of Our Time,Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; a
two-year touring exhibition to five cities
in Japan:-
1995 KWANNJU
BIENNALE,
Kwangju, Korea
1994Yoruba Kunst Heute,Kulturklub des Europaischen Patentamts,
Munich, Germany
1995Seeing
and Believing, The Economist Building,
London.
1992The Discerning Eye, Mall
Galleries, London
1991Il Sud del Mondo:
L’altra arte contemporanea, Galleria Civica
Darte Contemporanea, Marsala,
Italy
1991Four
x 4 Installation Project, Wolverhampton Art
Gallery, Wolverhampton, England
1991The
Green Contemporary Art Sale, Phillips Fine
Arts, London
1990Let the canvas come
to life with dark faces. Herbert Art Gallery
and Museum, Coventry; South
London Gallery, London; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool;
Cartwright Hall, Bradford;
Ipswich Museum, Nottingham.
1985Evolutions
in Nigerian Art, National Gallery of
Modern Art, Lagos
1984X1th Annual National
Juried Art Exhibition, La Grange Gallery of Art, La
Grange, Georgia, USA
Public/Corporate
Collections
Mott-Warsh
Collection & Museum, Flint, Michigan
Hood
Museum, Dartmouth, New Hampshire
Fidelity
Investment Corp, Boston, Massachusetts
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Sony Classical, New York
The British Museum, London, UK
The Horniman Museum, London, UK
The National Museum of African Art,
Smithsonian
Institution, Washington DC, USA
Iwalewa-Haus, Universitat Bayreuth,
Germany
Wellcome Trust Collection and Gallery,
London
National Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
Nigerian High Commission, London
Schmidtbank, Bayreuth, Germany
Addax and Oryx Group, Switzerland
Swiss Embassy, Lagos
Residences, Scholarships, Commissions
and Awards
2002Wellcome
Trust commission, London
1998Artist
Residency, workshop and exhibition, Kunststation,
Kollmitzberg, Austria
1997South
East Arts Grant for a Mural at the Maidstone Libaray
Gallery, Maidstone, Kent, England,United Kingdom
1995 Kwangju Biennale, Honorable
mention award
and trophy
1982Nigerian
Federal Scholarship Award for M.F.A. degree program
in Painting and Drawing.
1980Faculty
of Arts prize for outstanding achievement in Fine
Arts, University of Ife.
Design
projects – CD Cover Design
2017Osi Audu, Study
For Graphite Head, 1996 used for CD cover
titled Three Fall & Melane -
Four by the ACT label, Germany.
2001 Osi Audu, Magic Box,
2001 used as cover art for
‘THE MAGIC BOX’, John Williams’ CD, SONY CLASSICAL,
NEW YORK.
International Conferences and
Symposia
2014ACASA
16th Triennial Symposium on African Art,
Brooklyn Museum, New York.
I
presented a paper
titled – After-image:
Exploring the
Tangible andIntangible through Color.
2001British
Museum, London. The Human Image.
Presented a paper titled 'The
Body is a Headrest’: another look at the
Phenomenon of Consciousness.
1997University of London, School
of Oriental And African Studies,(SOAS) YorubaDiaspora.
Presented a
paper titled‘In search
of the Inner Head:
Yoruba notion of consciousness and its influence
on my art’.
Public Lectures and Artist Talks
2017
Osi Audu, curator of ABSTRACT MINDED, in
conversation with Laurie Ann Farrell, curator and
Head of Contemporary Art at the DIA, Detroit,
N'Namdi
Center for
Contemporary Art, Detroit.
2017Visiting
Artist talk, Columbus College of Art and Design,
Columbus Ohio; September 18; Canzani Screening
Room
2015 Detroit Intitute
of Arts (DIA), Arts and Minds Lecture Series; I
presented a paper titled:
After-Image: Exploring
African
Concept of Dualism Through Color, on April
19, 2015, 2:00 pm
2014 Osi Audu in
Conversation with Michael Stone-Richards and
Addie Langford, N'Namdi Center for Contemporary
Art, Detroit, 8/9/2014
2014School of Art and Art History,
University of Florida. Via Skype
2012Artists in
Dialogue: Next Wave Nigeria
Newark
Museum, Thursday, May 10, 7-8:30 pm
2009Conversations with a Continent: FIVE AFRICAN
ARTISTS. Columbia
University, New York, School of
International and Public Affairs / African institute (Fall
Lecture Series)
2005Bristol University, (Biannual Public Lecture Series) Presented a paper titledTradition
and Innovation in Yoruba
Culture.Explored the concept of asha
in the development ofstyle in Yoruba art.
2004World Museum Liverpool, TALKS AT
NATIONAL MUSEUM LIVERPOOL.
Gave a talk titledAll
things are secret. Looked at the notion of
Concealment
and the Skin of Things, and how my art
explores the phenomenon of perception
2002Science
Museum, London, (Naked Science Series of Public
Lectures)Presented a paper
titled - SEEING
THINGS: a look at ways
of
engaging with an inner image
in creativity and schizophrenia.
It was a follow-up to the exhibition -
HEAD ON
1997Maidstone
Gallery, Maidstone, England, UK
Gave a talk
titled – The Head As Object. Discussed
how my works at the exhibition
explores some of the visual implications of concepts
of the head as the seat
of consciousness.
2003 MUSEUM OF THE MIND, Mack, John,catalogue
of the exhibition, at the British Museum. P.24-25,
ISBN-13: 978-0714126371 ISBN-10:
0714126373
2003 THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE MIND, 2nd
Edition,Richard
Gregory (editor). ISBN-10:
0198662246 ISBN-13: 978-0198662242; “Yoruba
Concept Of The Mind”, Audu, Osi, pgs 953-954
2002 HEAD ON; Exhibition catalogue, Wellcome
Trust, London. P.32-37
2000 AFRICA - Arts and Cultures, Mack, John, British
Museum Press.,pg 28-29,
ISBN-10: 0714125482, ISBN-13:
978-0714125480
2000NEUE KUNST in der SchmidtBankWeiden,
Beier, Ulli. ‘Auf der Suche nach dem
inneren Kopf…’ p28-37, Verlag
fur moderne KunstNurnberg. ISBN
3-933096-12-X
1996ARTODAY, Lucie-Smith, Edward, p. 424-425,
ISBN-10: 0714838888 ISBN-13: 978-0714838885
1998 AFRICA-AFRICA, Toshio Shimizu, Catalogue
of the exhibition, Tobu Museum Japan
