2018
WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI
Born in St. Louis, MO (1970). Lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria.
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her works include drawings hand-stitched into tracing paper, videos, and public performances. Her work is deeply inspired by the daily interactions and frequencies that occur in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, from the epic to the intimate. Ogunji's performances explore the presence of women in public space; these often include investigations of labor, leisure, freedom and frivolity.
Recent exhibitions include the 2022 Sydney Biennial; Stellenbosch Triennial in South Africa; and Alpha Crucis at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo. She was an Artist-Curator for the 33rd São Paulo Bienal. She has also exhibited at: the inaugural Lagos Biennial; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Seattle Art Museum; Brooklyn Art Museum; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. Ogunji is 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. She has a BA from Stanford University [1992, Anthropology] and an MFA from San Jose State University [1998, Photography]. She currently resides in Lagos where she is founder/curator of the experimental art space The Treehouse.
Press
INTERALIA MAGAZINE
March 2020
BOMB Magazine
August 23, 2019
Something We Africans Got
December 3, 2018
Interview with Theresa Sigmund in conjunction with the exhibition, Every Mask I Ever Loved
Contemporary And
October 30, 2017
NATAAL
June 25, 2016
The Offing
January 19, 2016
If I Don’t Show It, Nobody Will
Contemporary And
May 13, 2015
you are so loved and lovely catalog
Published on the occasion of ruby onyinyechi amanze's and Wura-Natasha Ogunji's exhibition, this illustrated catalog includes an introductory essay by Emmanuel Iduma and excerpts from Drawing Memoir – a collection of the artists' written correspondences that chronicle the questions, quandaries, experiments and discoveries made in their studios and beyond.