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.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 "Solo
Presentation" AKAA - Also
Known as Africa,
(Sakhile&Me), Paris, France
2019 Sakhile&Me,
Frankfurt, Germany
2018
Skoto
Gallery, New York,NY
2018Woodstock
Birdcliffe Guild's Kleinert/James
Centerfor
the Arts, Woodstock, New York
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
Art Fairs
2019 Cologne Art and Design Fair
(Sakhile&Me)
2019 AKAA Art Fair, Paris
(Sakhile&Me)
2019 1-54 London
(Sakhile&Me)
2018
PRIZM Art Fair (Morton Fine
Art)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
De Buck
Gallery, New York, NY - CONJURING WHOLENESS IN THE WAKE OF RUPTURE,
curated by Kilolo Luckett
2019 Summer
Exhibition, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Wild
Joy,
Skoto Gallery, New
York, NY
2018 August
Wilson Center for African American Culture,
Pittsburgh, PA,
ABSTRACT MINDED: Works by Six
Contemporary African Artists;curated by
me - Osi Audu, April 27 - July 22,
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
