Marcia Kure

Marcia Kure
human
Ein sex anaa genderfemale Edit
Country wey e be citizenNigeria Edit
Name wey dem give amMarcia Edit
Family nameKure Edit
Ein date of birth1970 Edit
Place dem born amKano State Edit
Ein occupationartist, painter Edit
Educate forUniversity of Nigeria Edit
Dema official websitehttp://marciakure.com/ Edit
Has works in the collectionStudio Museum in Harlem, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections Edit
Copyright status as creatorworks protected by copyrights Edit
Personal pronounL484 Edit

Marcia Kure pronunciationⓘ (b. 1970) be a Nigerian visual artist dem know primarily for ein mixed media paintings den drawings wich dey engage plus postcolonial existentialist conditions den identities.[1][2]

Early life den education

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Na dem born Kure insyd Kano State, Nigeria.[3] She train for de University of Nigeria, Nsukka under Obiora Udechukwu, wey she graduate insyd 1994 plus a Bachelor of Arts insyd painting.[4][5]

Professional career den work

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Na Kure ein early work focus for political violence den de agency of women insyd patriarchal society.[6] Ein later work be concerned plus themes wey relate to motherhood, haute couture fashion, den hip-hop aesthetics.[7][8] She be represented by Susan Inglett Gallery (New York), Purdy Hicks Gallery (London) den Officine Dell'Immagine (Milan).[2][3][9]

Exhibitions den collections

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Kure get ein New York debut for de Skoto Gallery insyd 1995.[10] Na solo exhibitions include:

  • Goethe-Institut, Lagos
  • Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
  • Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.[11]

From January to March 2014, na Kure be artist-in-residence for London ein Victoria and Albert Museum.[12]

Group exhibitions dey include:

  • Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
  • New Museum, New York
  • Barbican Art Galleries, London
  • National Gallery of Art, Lagos
  • WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels[3]

Dem fi find ein work insyd de collections wey dey follow:

  • British Museum
  • Centre Pompidou
  • National Museum of African Art
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • The Newark Museum
  • North Carolina Museum of Art
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Luanda, Angola
  • United States Embassy, Abuja.[13]

Kure participate insyd:

  • 2005 Sharjah International Biennial (2005)[14]
  • 2006: International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville (direct by Okwui Enwezor)
  • 2013: La Triennial

Prizes/awards/grants

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  • 1994: Uche Okeke Prize for drawing
  • 2004: Elena Prentice Rulon-Miller Scholarship Fund/Minority Work Study Grant, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
  • 2007 - 2008: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
  • 2007 - 2008: Program Puffin Grant for Burqua as Shelter sculpture, Charleston, South Carolina

Teaching

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  • 2004: Teaching Internship, St. Mark’s School, Southborough, Massachusetts
  • 2019: Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden[15]

References

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  1. ↑ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Marcia Kure Portfolio at Purdyhicks Gallery". www.purdyhicks.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Susan Inglett Gallery | Marcia Kure". www.inglettgallery.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  4. ↑ "Biography". Marcia Kure. Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Simon Ottenberg, New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka group, (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997) p. 153
  6. ↑ See Ozioma Onuzulike, "Marcia Kure: Not Just a Cloth," Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter, 2001): p. 85.
  7. ↑ Victoria and Albert Museum, Digital Media (2013-11-14). "Visual Artist in Residence: Marcia Kure". www.vam.ac.uk (in British English). Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  8. ↑ Sara. "Forged and Forced Unions: Interview with Marcia Kure | Art/ctualité". Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  9. ↑ "Marcia Kure". www.officinedellimmagine.com. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  10. ↑ Cotter, Holland (2013-06-13). "Marcia Kure: 'Tease'". The New York Times (in American English). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  11. ↑ "Hope Gangloff". Richard Heller Gallery. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  12. ↑ "Visual Artist in Residence: Marcia Kure". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  13. ↑ "Susan Inglett Gallery | Marcia Kure". www.inglettgallery.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  14. ↑ "Marcia Kure". www.officinedellimmagine.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  15. ↑ "Pushing Boundaries: New Forms of Sculpture with Marcia Kure - Guest professor at KKH in February 2019". kkh.se. Retrieved 2019-03-08.