2018
WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI
Born in St. Louis, MO (1970). Lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria.
Wura-Natasha Ogunji (holds a B.A. in anthropology from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in photography from San Jose State University. In 2012, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to create a series of performance videos about the presence of women in public space in Lagos. Ogunji's works are in the collections of the Smithsonian African Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, University of Texas Austin, and Kadist Foundation. She participated in the 2022 Sydney Biennial, the 2020 Stellenbosch Triennale, the 2018 São Paulo Biennial, and the 2017 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and other institutions. Ogunji's durational performance video 'Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman?' will be on view in the exhibition A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography opening on July 6, 2023 at Tate Modern in London. She is currently an artist in residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.
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.
Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Reclaiming the Female Voice through Public Performance
Ogunji discusses her work as a performance artist in Lagos and her film, Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman? (2013).
Video courtesy of Design Indaba.