Links
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https://youtu.be/Y-whltPbvbo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExBuHdC0q1k
http://oracle.newpaltz.edu/dorsky-museum-welcomes-abstract-minded/
http://www.rollmagazine.com/abstract-minded-works-by-six-contemporary-african-artists-at-the-dorsky/
Glen Mannisto, review of Absrat Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists http://detroitartreview.com/2017/11/abstract-minded-works-by-six-contemporary-african-artists/
http://www.woodstockguild.org/exhibitions/
R. C, Baker - The VILLAGE VOICE, New York, February 16, 2016
http://africanah.org/osi-audu/
http://wsimag.com/art/19228-osi-audu
Newark Museum's online article on Outer and Inner Head, 2002
Inspiration Africa – I have a landscape in my Head at the Horniman
Framing consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives
Yoruba concept of the Mind - by Osi Audu
Museum of the Mind – show at the British Museum
NKA – Journal of contemporary African Art
African Affairs -
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa: Crisis or renaissance?
National Museum of African Art Washington DC
Artinfo.com - article on Osi Audu
2021
OSI ART APARTMENTS, Detroit, Michigan
under construction, completion - 2023.
OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait, Red Cap Chief, Etsako Head, 2016 acrylic on canvas, 76 x 95 inches
I am thrilled that my work is the theme and mural for the design of this upcoming apartments building in Detroit, Michigan; and quite honored that the building, OSI ART APARTMENTS is named after my work!!! Please use links below for details:
https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/9/25/20883679/woodbridge-development-osi-art-apartments-grand-river
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/10/15/osi-art-affordable-housing-detroit-woodbridge/3654761001/
https://michiganchronicle.com/2020/10/15/osi-art-apartments-launches-first-phase-of-new-west-end-gallery-district/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNajVEyc91o
2020
Just Won an NYFA Fellowship Award !!!
Excited to share that I have just won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship award in the "Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts" discipline. I am so thrilled to be a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow! Full details at nyfa.org
Osi Audu Instagram Live Studio Visit, July 15, 2020
Featured on CBS2 News at Noon - July 2, 2020
2018
ABSTRACT MINDED: WORKS BY SIX CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTIST
Curated by Osi Audu
Participating artists:
Osi Audu, Nicholas Hlobo, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Odili Donald Odita, Nnenna Okore, Elias Sime
N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (Detroit MI) October 6, 2017 - January 6, 2018
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz NY) January 24 - April 15, 2018
August Wilson Center, (Pittsburgh PA), April 27 - July 8, 2018
OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait: after Ogoni Head, 2017, pastel and graphite on paper mounted on canvas, 56.5 x 92 inches,
(one of my four works in Abstract Mined).
UPCOMING EXHIBITION at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Kleinert James Center for the Arts, (Woodstock NY) October 19 - December 2, 2018
OSI AUDU, DIALOGUES WITH AFRICAN ART
OSI AUDU, self-Portrait: after a Calabash Mask, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches (will be showing as part of my upcoming solo exhibition at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in October 2018)Use this link for more details - http://www.woodstockguild.org/exhibitions/
New work, Self-Portrait: Benin Head, 2016 - showing in "UNTITLED" at Morton Fine Art Gallery, Washington DC. Exhibition opens January 12.
OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait: Benin Head, 2016, graphite and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 36 x 40 ins.
Hood Museum's Recent Acquisition
The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire has just acquired one of my drawings - Self-Portrait:The Bearded, 2015, graphite and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 56 x 72 in.
OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait - The Bearded, 2015, graphite and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 56 x 72 in.
exhibitions and public lectures
2016 OSI AUDU - New Portraits: Self in the Global Age Solo exhibition at Skoto Gallery, New York. January 14 - February 20,
http://wsimag.com/art/19228-osi-audu
artdaily.org/news/84344/Exhibition-of-recent-drawings-by-Osi-Audu
By R.C. Baker
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
"Osi Audu was born in Nigeria..., and his shape-shifting drawings derive partly from the Yoruba concept that the human head encompasses a duality of spirit and matter, mind and body. Combining layered graphite and fathomless black pastel edged with sleek white lines, each of Audu’s renderings oscillates between a depiction of an empty and oddly shaped container — imagine a hatbox with tendrils — and a space-warping geometric abstraction. The graphite planes shimmer like sheet metal, seemingly enclosing dark expanses rimmed with light.
Segueing between three-dimensional representation and vivid graphic design, Audu’s work encourages mind games that summon unexpected allusions. With its cartoonish curves, Self-Portrait No. 57 (2015) recalls the line drawing Alfred Hitchcock made of himself for his television show, which, during the opening titles, would be filled with the director’s own shadow. Audu delivers a similar sense of disembodied animation, flummoxing the brain as his velvety surfaces dazzle the eye. Some future production of Hamlet could up the metaphysical ante by using one of these drawings as a stand-in for Yorick’s skull."
Click HERE to view the full article.
2015 Venice Biennale Collateral Event - Frontiers Reimagined - Museo Di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy. Exhibition titled - Frontiers Reimagined Sundaram Tagore Foundation- Gala opening preview May 6, 2015 Open till 22nd of November.
more info visit - frontiersreimagined.org
OSI AUDU, Self-Portrait II, 2015, pastel and graphite on paper mounted on canvas, 56.5 x 76.5 inches (Showing at the
Venice Biennale collateral event exhibition - Frontiers Reimagined, Palazzo Grimani Museum till Nov. 22, 2015
2015 Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Arts and Mind Lecture Series. I shall be presenting a paper titled - After-Image: Exploring African Concept of Dualism Through Color, on April 19, 2015, 2:00PM. For more information, please visit -
http://www.dia.org/calendar/event.aspx?id=4899&iid=
2015 ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Ave. White Plains, New York, NEA Funded exhibition titled - Crossing Borders - Large scale wall drawing and painting on canvas opening March 15, 2015 12 -5 PM
http://www.fios1news.com/lowerhudsonvalley/artsee-festival-prep
Osi Audu: In Dialogue with Michael Stone-Richards and Addie Langford, at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit on 8/9/14
ACASA 16th Triennial Symposium on African Art
March 19 - 22, 2014, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn New York.
Osi Audu - Paper Title: After-Image: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible through Color.
Panel title - Red, white, black and more: sensing, defining and performing color
Artists in Dialogue: Next Wave Nigeria
at the Newark Museum.
Thursday, May 10, 7-8:30 pm
Reception in the Engelhard Court, 6-7 pm
Free with suggested admission.
Pre-registration is required, call 973.596.6613.
Guest artists: Marcia Kure, Nnenna Okore and Osi Audu
Moderator: Christa Clarke, Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas
Sponsored by the Friends of African Art.
http://www.newarkmuseum.org/museum_default_page.aspx?id=13324
Newark Museum's Recent Acquisition
The Newark Museum has just acquired one of my large diptych paintings - "Outer and Inner Head," 2002, acrylic and wool on canvas, diptych: 48x48 inches (each panel):
Kwangju Biennale 1995. My work used on one of the Biennale posters
3 QUESTIONS DIGITAL SERIES - OSI AUDU
“An interview from Art In Embassies 3 Questions Digital Series with Osi Audu, who speaks about his process and artwork at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Abuja, Nigeria”