ARTIST TALK by PROFESSOR OLU OGUIBE
Tuesday, October 27 / 12:30
Professor Oguibe will talk about his art, focusing on his most recent works that are included in “The 49th Annual Art Department Faculty Show.”
Dr. Oguibe is a Professor at the Africana Studies Institute and in the Departments of Art and Art History, where he teaches studio practices and art theory. He graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian at the University of Nigeria in 1986, and received his PH.D. in the history of contemporary art from the University of London in 1992. Since then he has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Goldsmiths College, both of the University of London, as well as the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of South Florida where he held the Stuart Golding Endowed Chair in African art. His last position was as a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York.
Dr. Oguibe has published several books and articles on art, among them The Culture Game and Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West He has organized art exhibitions for major museums and galleries including the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London and the municipal museum of Mexico City. His own art has also been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Oguibe was a senior fellow of the Smithsonian Institution in 2006, and a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy in 1999. His hobbies include music, architectural and industrial design, and collecting articles of modern design, 19th-century Connecticut mantle clocks and classic British sports cars.
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