Selected Solo Exhibitions |
2024 |
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Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
2023-2024 |
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Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom |
2023 |
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El Anatsui: TimeSpace, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
2022-2023 |
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El Anatsui: Day After Night, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea |
2022 |
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El Anatsui: Freedom, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
El Anatsui: Shard Song, Efie Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
2021 |
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El Anatsui: En quête de liberté (In quest of freedom), Conciergerie, Paris, France |
2020 |
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Focus on El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
2019-2020 |
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El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
2019 |
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Material Wonder, October Gallery, London, UK
El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany El Anatsui: Recent Works (selected prints), Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
2018 |
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El Anatsui – Meyina, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Ofrendas, Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA |
2017 |
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Proximately, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium Meyina, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
El Anatsui: Topology of Generosity, Barakat Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Benchmarks: New Prints by El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, UK The Beginning and the End, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium |
2016 |
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El Anatsui: Meyina, Prince Claus Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
El Anatsui: New Works, October Gallery, London, UK
El Anatsui; Five Decades, Carriageworks, Sydney Festival 2016, Sydney, Australia
Afrikas Stjerne: Monumentale vaerker af El Anatsui (Star of Africa – Monumental works by El Anatsui), Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, South Jutland, Denmark |
2015 |
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El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, UK
El Anatsui: Five Decades, Jack Shainman Gallery - The School, Kinderhook, New York, USA
El Anatsui: Of Dzi, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway
El Anatsui, Le Fenil Gallery, domain du Chaumont-sur-Loire, France |
2014 |
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El Anatsui – Theory of Se, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
El Anatsui: Playing with Chance, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
El Anatsui: New Worlds, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA
El Anatsui: Trains of Thought, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
El Anatsui, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, USA |
2012 - 2015 |
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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA |
2012-2013 |
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Broken Bridge II, the High Line, New York, USA |
2012 |
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Pot of Wisdom, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Stitch in Time, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
2011 |
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El Anatsui, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA |
2010-2012 |
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El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote To You About Africa, organised by the Museum for African Art, New York, USA; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
2010-2011 |
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A Fateful Journey, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka; The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama; Tsuruoka Art Forum, Tsuruoka Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan |
2010 |
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Gli, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
El Anatsui, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA |
2009 |
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El Anatsui, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Process and Project, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
2008 |
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Earth Growing Roots, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
Zebra Crossing, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA |
2006 |
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Asi, David Krut Projects, New York, USA, in collaboration with October Gallery, London, UK
Nyekor, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy, in collaboration with October Gallery, London, UK |
2005 |
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Danudo: Recent Sculptures of El Anatsui, Skoto Gallery in collaboration with Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA |
2003-2008 |
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El Anatsui: Gawu, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK; Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland; Gallery Oldham, Oldham; October Gallery, London; Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson; The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
2002 |
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New Works, October Gallery, London, UK |
1998 |
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A Sculpted History of Africa, October Gallery, London, UK |
1997 |
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Hakpa, French Cultural Centre, Lagos, Nigeria |
1995 |
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El Anatsui: Sculptures and Reliefs, October Gallery, London, UK |
1991 |
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Old and New: An Exhibition of Sculpture in Assorted Wood, National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
1987 |
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Venovize: Ceramic Sculpture by El Anatsui, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Cornwall College, Redruth, UK
Pieces of Wood: An Exhibition of Mural Sculpture, The Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria |
1982 |
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Sculptures, Photographs, Drawings, Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria |
1980 |
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Wood Carvings, Cummington Community of Arts, Cummington, Massachusetts, USA |
1979 |
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Broken Pots: Sculpture by El Anatsui, British Council, Enugu, Nigeria; Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
1976 |
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Wooden Wall Plaques, Asele Art Gallery, Nsukka, Nigeria |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
2024 |
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Entangled Pasts, 1768 – Now: Art, Colonialism and Change, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2022-2023 |
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Journeys Through the Tate Collection: The Port and Migrations, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK |
2022 |
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Nomadic Resonance, October Gallery, London, UK
Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harnour, New York, USA Stressed World, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook New York, USA Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms, ICA Watershed, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The Clowes Pavillion Reimagined, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Africa, Imagined: Reflections on Mondern and Contemporary Art, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
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2021-22 |
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Diaspora at Home, KADIST, Paris, France
The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA
New Light: Encounters and Collections, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
Seeing the Invisible, Augmented Reality Exhibition, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, appearing simultaneously in 12 botanical gardens across the world.
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2021 |
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Socle du Monde Biennale, St john's Church, Herning, Denmark
Duende At Projects: THREADS, Zwartzusters Monastery, Antwerp, Belgium
Tomorrow is a Different Day, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Textures: A Print and Fiber Showcase, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
PORTALS, NEON, Athens, Greece
Invisible Sun, The Broad, Los Angeles, California, USA
Gold and Magic, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunts, Denmark
First Look: Recent Acquisitions & Rarely Seen Gems, MW Gallery, Flint, Michigan, USA |
2020-2021 |
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Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Royal Academy Summe Exhibition: Reclaiming Magic, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Black Stories, Des Moines Art Centre, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Grace Before Jones: Camera. Disco. Studio, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK Making the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Small World Real World, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2020 |
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Atmospheres; Artists of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Re-Materialize, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New Beginnings: the Epoch of African Art, Pure Lagos Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Myths, Martyrs, Monsters and Masterpieces , Everard Read Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa Now Sculpture 2020, Nigerian National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
2019 |
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Prête-moi ton rêve, Casablanca, Morocco. Travelled to: Dakar, Abidjan, Lagos, Addis Ababa, Cape Town and Marrakech
Ghana Freedom, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Moon, Royal Museums Greenwich, London, UK
Lend Me Your Dreams, Fondation pour le Développement de la Culture Contemporaine Africaine, Casablanca, Morocco
Magdalene Odundo: The Shape of Things, Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, Wakefield, UK, travelling to the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
Dream No Small Dream: Celebrating 40 Years of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
South South / Between Land and Sea: I don't understand what you're talking about, but I know what you mean, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
A National Treasure: Fred Meijer, His Collection and Legacy, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
I've grown roses in this garden of mine, Goodman Gallery, London, UK |
2018 |
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International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yerevan, Armenia
0.10 Reloaded Avantgarde, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Domestic Alien, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair, The 8th Floor, New York, USA
Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
MAD Collects: The Future of Craft Part 1, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Parking on Pavement, Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, New York, USA
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2017 |
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Masterpiece, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK
Afriques Capitales: Cape of Good Hope Here We Come, Lille 3000, Lille, France
La Terra Inquieta/The Restless Earth, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Three Dimensions: Modern & Contemporary Approaches to Relief and Sculpture, Acquavella Galleries, New York, USA A Journey. El Anatsui, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
2016 |
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Marrakech Biennale 6; Not New Now, Marrakech, Morocco (represented by October Gallery)
The Woven Arc, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Festival Internationale des Jardins, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
El Anatsui, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Maya Lin: Of a Different Nature, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2015 |
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Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Embracing Space and Color: Art On & Off the Wall, Vero Beach Museum of Art, USA
Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, USA
Re:Purposed, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Piece Work, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Atopolis, Wiels in collaboration with Mons 2015, Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium
PROPORTIO, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy |
2014 |
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Mise En Scène, The School,Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, USA
The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain |
2013 |
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245th Summer Exhibition, installation of sculpture on the façade of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
ArtZuid 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Masters of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
2012 |
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El Gran Sur, 1st Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay
All Our Relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Intense Proximity,Paris Triennial 2012, Palais de Tokyo/ Musée Galliera, Paris, France
African Cosmos: Stellar Art, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Dialogues, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
We Face Forward, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
2011-12 |
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Environment and Object: Recent African Art, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, New York; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
Architectural Environments for Tomorrow: New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 |
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The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
ARS 11, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Hunters and Gatherers: The Art of Assemblage, Sotheby’s, New York, USA
The Splendour of Truth, The Beauty of Charity, The Vatican, Rome, Italy |
2010 |
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Who Knows Tomorrow, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Human Rites, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
A Collective Diary, an African Contemporary Journey, Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzilya, Israel |
2009 |
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Against Exclusion, 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Intramoenia Extra Art, Castelli di Puglia, Barletta Castle, Barletta, Italy
Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary African Artists, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Transvangarde: Leading Contemporary Artists, October Gallery, London, UK
Confines Extremos. Confines Urbanos, Institut Valencia D’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Off the Grid, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Homecoming, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana
Promoter-of- Nigerian-Art Series, Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
Embrace! Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA |
2008 |
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Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum for Arts and Design, New York, USA
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum for Arts and Design, New York, USA
World Histories, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Angaza Afrika: African Art Now, October Gallery, London, UK
Recycling: The Whole House, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway
Juego Africano de lo Contemporáneo: Pre-figuraciones Postcoloniales, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa (MACUF), A Coruña, Spain
Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, The Netherlands |
2007 |
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Artempo – Where Art Becomes Time, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, Arsenale, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Un/Fair Trade: The Art of Justice, Neue Galerie, Graz; Landesmuseum Joanneum, Styria, Austria
From Courage to Freedom, October Gallery, London, UK
Living Masters, Terra Culture, Lagos, Nigeria
The Boys Craft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Still Life: Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change, 8th Sharjah Biennial, UAE |
2006-11 |
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The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California; Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA; Hillside Terrace Galleries, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan; Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain; The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA; Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania; Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, USA |
2006 |
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Altered, Stitched and Gathered, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
DAK’ART 2006, 7th Biennale of African Art, Dakar, Senegal
-poiesis, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Europe-Afrique: Regards Croisés, Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Primitivsm Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Expanding Africa: New Art, New Directions, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Body of Evidence, National Museum of African Art, Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
2005 |
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In the Making: Materials and Process, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Out There, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
AKA . . . of Age 2005, Maison de France, Lagos, Nigeria
De Young Museum, San Francisco, USA |
2004-7 |
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Afrika Remix, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
2004 |
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A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water, 5th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Intelligence Now! October Gallery, London, UK |
2003 |
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Africa Informs, October Gallery, London, UK
Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Villa Groppallo, Vado Ligure, Italy
Transfer(t)s, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Homage to Asele, National Museum Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Selected Works, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA |
2002 |
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The Independent, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK |
2001-02 |
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The Happy Face of Globalization, 1st Albissola Ceramics Biennale, Albissola, Italy; Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland |
2001 |
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El Tiempo de Africa, Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands; Consejería de Cultura de Comunidad, Madrid, Spain
Encounters with the Contemporary, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Africas: The Artist and the City, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain
News from the Front, October Gallery, London, UK
Jazz and Visual Improvisations, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
Ebony Soliloquy: A Five Year Retrospective (1996–2001), Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, USA
Messagers de la Terre, Rur’Art– Espace d’Art Contemporain d’Lycée Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouille, France |
1999 |
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New Colours From Old Worlds, October Gallery, London, UK
The Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Les Champs de la Sculpture, Champs Elysées, Paris, France
Contemporary Art from West Africa, October Gallery, London, UK |
1998 |
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7 Triennale der Kleineplastik, Stuttgart, Germany
9th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan
Riddle of the Spirits - Twelve African Artists, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA |
1997 |
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The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Free Form and Precision, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA |
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Container ’96: Art Across Oceans, Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark
Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Images of Africa, Torpedohallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Africana, Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Transforms, October Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibition, Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria
El Anatsui & Tesfaye Tessema, Contemporary African Gallery, New York, USA
El Anatsui & Sol Le Witt, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA |
1995-96 |
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An Inside Story - African Art of our Time, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima; Himeji City Museum of Arts, Himeji; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama; Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Marugame; Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan |
1995 |
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AKA ’95, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
Contemporary African Art, World Intellectual Property Organisation Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
6th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan
Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany
The Right to Hope, Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; touring to Cairo; Amman; Gaza; Jerusalem; Tel Aviv
Africus, 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Uli Art– Master Works, Skoto Gallery, NY, USA |
1994 |
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Arte/ Sociedad/ Reflexion, 5th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
AKA ’94, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
1993 |
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New Currents ’93 - Avant-Garde Nigerian Art, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
Six African Artists, October Gallery, London, UK
AKA ’93, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
1992 |
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Arte Amazonas, Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; traveled as: Klima Global to Staatliche Kunalle, Berlin; Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
AKA ’92, Bona Gallery, Enugu and Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
Begegnung mit den Anderen, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany |
1991 |
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El Desafi de Colonization, 4th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
South of the World, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy
AKA ’91, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
Works by a Group of African Artists, The World Bank Art Society Gallery, World Bank Headquarters, Washington D.C., USA
The Sculptor’s Guild of Nigeria Inaugural Exhibition, Murtala Mohammed Park, Enugu, Nigeria |
1990 |
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Five Contemporary African Artists, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Calabash 1st Art Exhibition, The Calabash, Lagos, Nigeria
AKA ’90, The Presidential Hotel, Enugu; Goethe-Insitut, Lagos, Nigeria
Achebe Celebration Exhibition, Continuing Education Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Contemporary African Artists: Changing Tradition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia; Chicago Public Library Cultural Centre, Chicago; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.; Museum of the National Center of African-American Artists, Boston, USA |
1989 |
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Zeitgenössische Nigerianische Kunst, Bonn, Bocholt and Mönchengladbach, Germany |
1988 |
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Walls and Gates - El Anatsui & Liz Willis, Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria
Thoughts and Processes - El Anatsui & Ndubisi Onah, The Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
AKA ’88, Nigerian Union of Journalists’ Press Centre, Enugu; Contemporary Art Gallery, Institute of African Studies, Nsukka; National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria |
1987 |
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AKA ’87, The Presidential Hotel, Enugu; National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria
Original Prints from the 3rd Nsukka Workshop, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria |
1986 |
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AKA ’86 - Inaugural Exhibition of the AKA Circle of Artists, the French Centre, Enugu and Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
Nigerian-German Prints, University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria |
1983 |
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Four Contemporary African Artists, Mintec Gallery, Port Harcourt, Nigeria |
1982 |
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Okike 10th Anniversary Exhibition, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
1981 |
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Drawing on the World, Billingham Art Gallery, Billingham; Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough and the House of Commons Gallery, London, UK |
1979 |
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Christian Arts in Nigeria, Holy Trinity Cathedral Hall, Onitsha, Nigeria
The Nsukka School, Art Gallery of the Rivers State Council for Arts and Culture, Port Harcourt, Nigeria |
1975 |
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Fabric Wall Hangings, Burnt Wooden Wall Plaques, The Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
1974 |
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Tekarts Expo 5, National Arts Centre, Accra; Specialist Training College, Winneba, Ghana |
1969-70 |
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Ghana National Collection, National Arts Centre, Accra, Ghana; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |