Wura-Natasha Ogunji

Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her works include, paintings, videos and public performances. She is deeply inspired by the daily interactions and frequencies that occur in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, where she currently lives. Ogunji's performances explore the presence of women in public space; these often include investigations of labor, leisure, freedom and frivolity.

 

She has a BA from Stanford University (1992, Anthropology) and an MFA from San Jose State University (1998, Photography). She resides in Lagos where she is founder of the experimental art space The Treehouse.

 

Ogunji is also a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation; The Dallas Museum of Art; and the Idea Fund. Ogunji's works are in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; International African American Museum, Charleston; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; North Dakota Museum of Art; The University of Texas at Austin; Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; and Kadist Foundation.

 

Recent exhibitions include: As Feeling Births Idea, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (group - 2024); A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK (group - 2024); Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Lalala Ha!, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria (solo - 2023); Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Cake, Fridman Gallery, New York City NY, USA (solo - 2023); rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (group - 2022); Diaspora at Home, Kadist Foundation, Paris, France (group - 2021); My Whole Body Changed into Something Else, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa (group - 2021); A stranger’s soul is a deep well, Fridman Gallery, New York City NY, USA (group - 2021); The Power of My Hands: Afrique(s) artistes femmes, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France (group - 2021); Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us, Stellenbosch Triennial, Cape Town, South Africa (group - 2020); Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Chapter 3- Every Mask I Ever Loved - On Intersectional Feminisms and Colonial Legacies, ifa Berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo - 2017)