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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 24 |
| United Kingdom | 9 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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October Gallery, United Kingdom |
6 |
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National Museum of African Art, USA |
3 |
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Fowler Museum at UCLA, USA |
2 |
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Jack Shainman Gallery, USA |
2 |
Biography: 
1944 Born in Anyako (GH)
El Anatsui was born 1944 in Anyako, Ghana. El earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Sculpture and a Postgraduate Diploma in Art Education from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is Professor of Sculpture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he has lectured since 1975. He exhibited at the 1990 Venice Biennale, where he received an honorable mention and was included in the Johannesburg Biennale in 1995 as well as the Gwanju Bienniale, Gwanju, South Korea, 2004. His most recent solo exhibition Gawu has toured Europe, Asia and North America. He is included in the anthology exhibition Africa Remix, which has toured Dusseldorf, London and Paris and will travel to Tokyo and other cities in 2006/7. His work is in numerous public and private collections including: Asele Institute, The British Museum, Centre Pompidou, de Young Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Kunst Palast, The Newark Museum, Nigeria National Art Gallery, Segataya Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.
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Public exhibitions 54
until 10.1.2010
Solo shows 13
2009
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| El Anatsui: Process and Project - Museum for African Art, Long Island |
2008
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| El Anatsui - Earth Growing Roots - San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA |
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| El Anatsui: Gawu - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC |
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| El Anatsui - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| El Anatsui: Gawu - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| El Anatsui - Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH |
2006
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| El Anatsui - Asi - David Krut Projects - New York, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Danudo - Recent Sculptures of El Anatsui - Skoto Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| El Anatsui - GAWU - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
2004
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| El Anatsui: Gawu - Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo |
2003
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| El Anatsui - Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (Wales) |
2002
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| El Anatsui - October Gallery, London (England) |
1998
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| El Anatsui - A Scultped History of Africa - October Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 40
2009
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| 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| Chance Encounters - Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa - Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA,Lagos), Lagos |
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| chance encounters - Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Fundacion Canal, Madrid |
2008
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| Prospect.1 New Orleans - Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA |
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| Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary - Museum of Arts & Design, New York City, NY |
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| El juego africano de lo contemporaneo - MACUF Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, Coruna |
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| sonsbeek 2008: grandeur - Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem |
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| World Histories - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
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| Angaza Afrika - African Art Now - October Gallery, London (England) |
2007
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| BoysCraft - Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
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| Un Fair/trade - Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Africa Remix - Contemporary art of a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg |
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| 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| ARTEMPO - Where Times Becomes Art - Museo Fortuny, Venice |
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| 8th Sharjah Biennial - Sharjah International Art Biennial, Sharjah |
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| TRANS CAPE - contemporary African art on the move - Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA), New York City, NY |
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| El Anatsui / Romuald Hazoumé / Owusu-Ankomah - FROM COURAGE TO FREEDOM - October Gallery, London (England) |
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| Contemporary African Art from the Collection of William Jones - Aljira - Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ |
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| Uncomfortable Truths-the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art & design - Victoria and Albert Museum - V&A, London (England) |
2006
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| Altered, Stitched & Gathered - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
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| Trienal de Luanda 2007 - Trienal de Luanda, Luanda |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL |
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| -poiesis - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Body of Evidence (Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection) - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC |
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| The Missing Peace - Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| 7čme Biennale de l´Art Africain contemporain - Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dakar |
2005
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| African Remix - l'art contemporain d'un continent - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
2004
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| 5th Gwangju Biennal 2004 - A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf |
1999
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| Les Champs de la Sculpture 2000 - Les Champs de la Sculpture, Paris |
1998
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| The Poetics of Line - Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, Nigeria - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC |
1996
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| Transvangarde - Cutting-edge Work from Africa, Asia, The Americas and Europe - October Gallery, London (England) |
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| Transforms - October Gallery, London (England) |
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Nigeria
| | Pendulum Art Gallery, Lagos
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South Africa
| | David Krut Projects - Johannesburg, Johannesburg
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United Kingdom
| | October Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | David Krut Projects - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Skoto Gallery, New York City, NY
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Public collections 16
France
| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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Germany
| | Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
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Ghana
| | Ghana National Art Museum, Accra
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Japan
| | Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
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Jordan
| | Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman
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United Kingdom
| | British Museum, London (England)
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USA
| | Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
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| | The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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| | Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
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| | Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
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| | University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
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| | Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
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| | National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
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