El Anatsui - Past Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2006
El Anatsui: Gawu, Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
El Anatsui: Asi, David Krut Projects, New York, NY.

2005
El Anatsui: Danudo, The Contemporary African Gallery, New York, NY.
El Anatsui: Danudo, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY.

2003
El Anatsui: Gawu, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK. An Oriel Mostyn Gallery Touring Exhibition.

2002
El Anatsui: New Works, October Gallery, London, UK.

1998
El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa, The October Gallery, London, UK.

1997
Hakpa, French Cultural Centre, Lagos, Nigeria.

1995
El Anatsui, The October Gallery, London, UK.

1991
Old and New: An Exhibition of Sculpture in Assorted Wood, The National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.

1987
Venovize: Ceramic Sculptures, 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
Sculptures, Photographs, Drawings, Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria.

1980
Wood Carvings, Cummington Community of Arts, Cummington, Massachusetts, USA.

1979
Broken Pots: Sculpture by El Anatsui, British Council, Enugu and the Institute of African Studies,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

1976
Wooden Wall Plaques, Asele Art Gallery, Nsukka Nigeria.

Two Person Exhibitions

1996
El Anatsui & Tesfaye Tessema, The Contemporary African Gallery, New York, USA.
El Anatsui & Sol LeWitt, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA.

1988
Walls and Gates – El Anatsui & Liz Willis, Avante-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria.
Thoughts and Processes – El Anatsui & Ndubisi Onah, The Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003
Africa Informs, The October Gallery, London, UK.
Biennale de Ceramica nell’ Arte Contemporanea, Villa Groppallo, Vado Ligure, Italy.
Transfers, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium.

2002
The Independent (Ghanian Exhibition), The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK.

2001
Encounters with the Contemporary, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
The Happy Face of Globalisation, The 1st Albissola, Italy and touring to Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland.
Elf Village, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Africas: The Artist and the City, Centro de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain.
News from the Front, The October Gallery, London, UK.

2000
El Tiempo de Africa (Africa’s Time), Centro Atlántico Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.
Messagers de la Terrre, Rur’Art – Espace d’Art Contemporain d’Lycee Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouille, France.

1999
New Colours from Old Worlds: Contemporary Art from West Africa, The October Gallery, London, UK.
The Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK.
The Independent, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK.
Les Champs de la Sculpture, Presented by the City of Paris and organized by the Paris
Cultural Affairs Department.
Riddle of the Spirits – Twelve African Artists, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY.
Ondambo Workshop Exhibition, National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
9th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan.

1997
The Poetics of Line – Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, The National Museum of African Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.

1996
Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK.
Container ’96 – Art Across Oceans, Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Images of Africa, Torpedohallen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden.
Africana, Sala 1 Rome, Italy.
Transforms, October Gallery, London, UK.
Group Exhibition, Avante-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria.

1995
AKA ’95, Bona Gallery, Enugu and Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.
8th Osaka Sculpture Triennle, Osaka, Japan.
Contemporary African Art, World Intellectual Property Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland.
Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK.
The Right to Hope, Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa and touring o Cairo, Amman, Gaza, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
An Inside Story – African Art of Our Time, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo and touring to the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Himeji City Museum of Arts, Himeji; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama; Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan.
Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany.
Art in the Shadow, The Nigerian Pavillion at Africus – 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Uli Art – Master Works, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA.

1994
5th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba.

1993
Six African Artists, October Gallery, London, UK.
New Currents ’93 – Avant-Garde Nigerian Art, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.

1992
Begegnung mit den Anderen (Meeting with the Others), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
AKA ’92 Bona Gallery, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.
Arte Amazonas, Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and subsequently touring as Klima Global to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin and Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany.

1991
AKA ’91 Bona Gallery, Enugu and Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria.
Works by a Group of African Artists, The World Bank Art Society Gallery, World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC, USA.
The Sculptor’s Guild of Nigeria Inaugural Exhibition, Murtala Mohammed Park, Enugu, Nigeria.
South of the World, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy.

1990
The Calabash 1st Art Exhibition, The Calabash, Lagos, Nigeria.
AKA ’90, The Presidential Hotel, Enugu and Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria.
Five Contemporary African Artists, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Contemporary African Artists – A Changing Tradition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York and thereafter touring to the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC, and the Museum of the National Center of African American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.