OLADÉLÉ
AJIBOYÉ BAMGBOYÉ
Born in Odo-Eku, Nigeria, 1963
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
1998-96
Slade College of Fine Art University College, London, UK, M.A.
in Media Fine Art Theory and Practice
Awarded Distinction by the University of London, 1998
SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2001
Thomas Erben Gallery New York, NY “ The Hair or the
man” 1994 and Blink” 2001
2000
Anne Faggionato Gallery London, UK “Selected Works”
Onepercent Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark “CD Audio Installation for
Passengers of a Specially Commissioned Mercedes 300E Taxi” organized by the
gallery
Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan “New Works in the Project
Gallery”
Helsinki City Art Museum Helsinki, Finland “Videoworks”
Witte de With Rotterdam, The Netherlands “Photo-Videoworks
1991-2000” as part of “Strangers & Paradise”
Thomas Erben Gallery New York, NY “The Unmasking - Part II, and Earlier
Photoworks”
1999
ArtPace San Antonio, Texas
1998
Slade College of Art UCL, London, UK “The Unmasking - Part I” photographic and video
installation as part of MA Fine Art Degree Show
Gallery One Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal “Recent Video and Photoworks”
Staedtische Galerie im Buntentor Bremen, Germany “Movements” triple video
projected installation
1995
Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien Studio II, Berlin, Germany “Well Without
End”
1992
Kiek in de Kok Gallery Tallinn, Estonia, Baltic States “Five Big Images”
1987
Third Eye Centre Glasgow, UK
Corridor Gallery Fife, UK “A Cry for Africa”
1985
Glasgow School of Art Glasgow, UK “Photographs”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2001/2002
Museum Villa Stuck Munchen, Germany; House of World Cultures
in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Germany P.S.1 New York, NY and Museum
of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
“Short Century”
2001
Borusan Art Gallery Istanbul, Turkey “Metropolis Now”
Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art Pacifico, Yokohama,
Japan
2000
Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporanea
“Installations” organised by Videobrasil at the SESC
Pompéia, Sâo Paulo, Brasil.
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Netherlands “The Vincent van Gogh Bi-Annual
Award for Contemporary Art in Europe Exhibition”
Palais des Beaux Arts Brussel, Belgium “Indiscipline”
Oeiras Portugal
“More Works about Buildings and Food”
Tate Britain London, UK “New British Art 2000: Intelligence”
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France “The Adapted Writing
Machine” new media installation as part of “Voila - le Monde dans
la Tete”
Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti Turin, Italy “Dire Aids - Say Aids” new
media installation
1999
Real Art Ways Hartford, Connecticut and Museum of Durban South Africa “Bodies of Resistance” to coincide with the 2000
World Aids Conference
Provinciaal Museum voor Fotografie Antwerp, Belgium “Laboratorium” collaboration of
Antwerpen Open and Roomade
Thomas Erben Gallery New York “Summer Gallery Show”
Henry Moore Galleries Royal College of Art, London, UK “Go Away - Artists and
Travel”
1998
Kunsthalle Krems Krems and Ethnology Museum Vienna, Austria “Afromedi@rt” installation
IFAN Cheikh Anta DIOP Museum of African Art Dakar, Senegal “Dak’Art - Dakar
Biennale” photographic installation including light boxes
Canal Isabel II Cuidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain “Interference” photographic light box
installation
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, Spain
“Transatlantico” video installation
1997
Kultur Bahnhof
Kassel, Germany
“Documenta X” eight laser disks video installation
Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Germany “Die Anderen Modernen:
Zeitgenoessische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika” photographic
installation
Johannesburg Biennale Johannesburg, South Africa “Alternating Currents” photographic light box
installation in the Electric Workshop
Contemporary Art Museum University of South Florida, Tampa,
Florida “Cross/ing:
Time-Space-Movement” photographic light box installation, traveled to Track
16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Atlanta Museum Atlanta, Georgia, and
other US locations
1996
Reininghaus and Kuenstlerhaus
Graz, Austria
“Inclusion/Exclusion - Art in the Age of Post-Colonialism and
Global Migration” part of Steirischer Herbst 96
Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York “In/sight - African Photographers 1940 -
Present”
Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Germany “Prospect 96”
1995
Sorak International Art Biennale Sorak, South Korea,
photoworks
Environmental Beach Art Festival Sorak, South Korea
performance on Sokcho Beach
Institute of Contemporary Art London, UK Mirage: “Enigmas of Race, Difference and
Desire”
Ave Film Festival Arnhem, The Netherlands
Foto-Institute Rotterdam, The Netherlands “Self-Evident”
Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK “Self-Evident”
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery Glasgow, UK “Freedom” an Amnesty
International Glasgow group exhibition, travelled to: Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast, Southampton
Art Gallery, Southampton and McManus Galleries, Dundee
1994
Whitechapel Art Gallery London, England, UK “Whitechapel Open”
1993
Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, UK “Exposure”
1992
Laing Art Gallery Newcastle, UK “Shifting Borders”
1991
Burnaby Art Gallery Vancouver, Canada “Culturally (Dis)Placed”
Galerie Dazibao Montreal, Canada “The Problematics of Identity in Photography”
1990
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery Glasgow, UK “Either/Or” video
installation as part of Glasgow: Cultural Capital of Europe
1990
Third Eye Centre Glasgow, UK, touring group show to
Glasgow’s Twin Cities: Rostov on Don, Ukraine; Dalian, China; Turin,
Italy
1989
The Smith Art Gallery Stirling, UK “The Smith Biennial”
Stills Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland “Anima Mundi: Still Life in Britain” in conjunction with
the Edinburgh Festival, travelled in Canada to: Whyte Museum of the Canadian
Rockies,
Banff, Alberta, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Nickle Arts
Museum,
Calgary, Alberta, The
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Confederation Centre Art Gallery
and Museum, Charlottetown, Galerie d’art, Université de
Moncton, New Brunswick, Galerie d’art, Centre culturel,
Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Maison de la Culture Parc
Frontenac, Montréal, Québec, in conjunction with “Le
Mois de la Photo a Montréal”
1988
Transmission Gallery Glasgow Glasgow, UK
1987
Stills Gallery Edinburgh, UK “New Light in Scottish Photography”
1986
Glasgow Print Studios Glasgow, UK “Nine Photographers at the Glasgow Print
Studios”
Transmission Gallery Glasgow, UK
HONORS AND AWARDS
2000-1
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, 6 months stipend for the Artist-in-Residence Program, organized
under the auspices of the Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Sciences and
Education.
Canary Island Artist Photography Project Commission “The Canary Islands: in the Gaze
of the Artist” selected artists include Thomas Ruff, Craigie Horsfield,
Olafur Eliasson, Miguel Rio Branco, Augusto Alves da Silva, and Montserrat
Soto, published by Editorial Actar, Barcelona, organised by Galeria Elba Benitez,
Madrid and the government of the Canary Islands.
Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) Collaboration
Programme Commission Award to develop the project “The Unmasking, Part
III” in collaboration with the NMGM Artefacts Collections, Liverpool
Museum.
British Council Travel Research Grant to participate in the
“Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporânea” exhibition at the SESC
Pompéia, Sâo Paulo, Brazil.
2000
Vincent van Gogh Bi-annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe Bonnefantenmuseum, The Netherlands.
Nominated with Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland), Miroslaw Balka (Poland), Carsten
Höller (Germany), Pedro Cabrita Reis (Portugal) and Luc Tuymans (Belgium),
selected by the commissioners Barbara Vanderlinden and Vicente Todoli.
1999
British Council Artist Exhibition Travel Grant to
Connecticut, USA, as part of the show “Bodies of Resistance”
organised by Visaids, New York
British Council and Kunsthalle Bern Switzerland Travel funds to attend the Contemporary
African Art Curatorial Workshop in Accra, Ghana
1998
South East Arts and Medway Council UK Commission for the
production of artwork for the internet project “Imagined Journeys”
based on the responses to the site at Chatham Historic Dockyard
1997
British Council Exhibition Production Grant to produce work
for Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
1995
Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK Autograph Commission to
produce the video installation “Homeward: Bound, as part of Africa
95”
British Council Exhibition Travel Grant to Sorak
International Art Biennale, South Korea
1993
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation New Horizons Bursary
to develop new works in the medium of film
1992
Scottish Arts Council Richard Hough Photography Bursary to pursue a
project at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Banff Center for the Arts Stipend for summer residency
“The Race and the Body Politic” Banff, Canada
1991
British Council Travel bursary to Canada
1989
British Council Travel bursary to Canada
1988
Scottish Arts Council Young Artist Major Bursary
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2000
Solange Oliveira Farkas and Clive Kellner “Oladélé
Ajiboyé Bamgboyé” in: “Mostra Africana de Arte
Contemporânea” exhibition catalogue, Videobrasil, at the SESC
Pompéia, Sâo Paulo, Brasil, English/Portuguese, reproductions
Virginia Button “Oladélé Ajiboyé
Bamgboyé” in: “New British Art 2000: Intelligence” exhibition catalogue, Tate
Britain,
London, UK, reproductions
Giorgio Verzotti
“Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé” in:
“DIRE AIDS - Art in the Age of Aids” exhibition catalogue, Palazzo
della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy, Italian/English, by
Associazione DIRE AIDS, Torino and Edizioni Charta, Milano, reproductions
Barbara Vanderlinden
“Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé” in:
“The Vincent van Gogh Bi-annual Award for Contemporary Art in
Europe” exhibition catalogue, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht,
Netherlands, reproductions
Horace Brockington
“Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, The
Unmasking, Part II and Earlier Photoworks. Strangers & Paradise, O.A.
Bamgboyé Works 1991-2000” in: New York Arts Magazine, July/August, p. 49
Scott J. Budzynski
“Oladélé Bamgboyé, The Unmasking, Part
II” in: New York Arts Magazine, July/August, p. 77
Joy Garnett
“Oladélé Bamgboyé, The Unmasking, Part
II” in: artnet.com Magazine,
http://artnet.com/magazine/reviews/garnett/garnett7-24-00.asp, illustrated
Denise Carvalho in: NKA - Journal of Contemporary Art, forthcoming
“Oladélé Bamgboyé - Artist of the
Month” in: New York Contemporary Art Report, April, cover and p.
8-9, illustrated
Holland Cotter
“Oladélé Bamgboyé” in: New York
Times,
May 12, Art in Review
Karen E. Jones
“Oladélé Bamgboyé, The Unmasking, Part II and
Earlier Photoorks” in: Time Out New York, Issue 245
Sandra Smallenburg
“Zwarte mannen zijn zeldzaam in Schotland”, NRC in: Handelsblad, June 7, Kunst
Marja-Tertu Kivirinta
“Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé Mediataide
sai uuden gallerian Tennispalatsiin” in: Helsinki Sanomat, April 1,
Kultuur/Kuvataide
1999
Francesco Bonami and Hans Ulrich Obrist Dreams, published by
Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Turin, Italy
Royal College of Art London
“From A to B (and Back Again)” exhibition catalogue for
“Go Away - Artists and Travel”, illustrated
Okwui Enwezor and Olu Oguibe (eds.) “Oladélé Ajiboyé
Bamgboyé” in: “Reading
Contemporary African Art from Theory to the Marketplace”, Institue
of International Visual Arts (inIVA), illustrated
1998
Okwui Enwezor “Oladélé
Ajiboyé Bamgboyé” in: Cream - Contemporary Art in
Culture,
Phaidon Press, London
Odili Donald Odita “Oladélé Ajiboyé
Bamgboyé” Global Art, in: Flash Art Magazine, Summer
Centro Atlàntico de Arte Moderno Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, Spain
“Transatlantico” exhibition catalogue, Spanish/English, 11
images and artist essay
Okwui Enwezor “Oladélé Ajiboyé
Bamgboyé” in: “Interferencias” exhibition catalogue, Comunidad
de Madrid, Spain, 11 images, Spanish/English
O. Donald Odita
“Movement and Real Time in the Work of Oladélé
Ajiboyé Bamgboyé” in: Jornal de Exposiçao, n.32, Culturgest,
Lisbon, Portugal
Franklin Sirmans
“Johannesburg Biennale Report” in: Flash Art Magazine, Jan/Feb
1997
“Documenta X Review” in: Kunstforum, no. 13
Documenta X- The Book illustrated, p. 35, Cantz, Germany
“Artist Statement” in: Documenta X - Short
Guide/Kurzführer,
pp. 28-29, illustrated, Cantz, Germany
Johannesburg Metropolitan Council South Africa, and Prince
Claus Fund for Culture Netherlands “Trade Routes: History and
Geography” exhibition catalogue
Peter Weiermair
“Oladélé Bamgboyé” in: “Inclusion/Exclusion -
Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und globaler Migration” exhibition
catalogue Graz, Austria, 10 images and artist statement, pp. 142-145
Dr. Olu Oguibe, Essay, in: “Cross/ing:
Time-Space-Movement” exhibition catalogue, University of Florida, Tampa; Track 16
Gallery,
Santa Monica, California; and Atlanta Museum, Georgia, 4 images
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
“Die Anderen Modernen - Zeitgenoessische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien
und Lateinamerika exhibition catalogue, English/German, 4 images
.
1996
Claire Bell, Octavio Zaya and Okwui Enwezor, Essays,
in:
“In/Sight:
African Photographers -1940 to the Present” exhibition catalogue, Guggenheim
Museum,
New York, 3 images and artist statement
Peter Weiermair, Essay, in: “Prospect 96” exhibition
catalogue, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany,
3 images and artist statement
Okwui Enwezor
“Occupied Territories: Power, Access and African Art” in: Frieze Magazine, February,
illustrated
Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya “Contemporary African Art” in: Flash Art
Magazine, January, 2 images
1995
Peter Weiermair, Biography and critical text, in: Contemporary
Photographers Reference Book Third Edition, Silverstone
Kobena Mercer, Critical text, in: “Self-Evident”
exhibition catalogue, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 6 images
Angela Kingston, Essay, in: “Freedom” exhibition
catalogue, Amnesty International Glasgow, 3 images and artist statement
Frits Gierstberg
“Counter-Culture” exhibition catalogue, Foto
International Rotterdam, two images
1994
Peter Weiermair “Oladélé
Ajiboyé Bamgboyé” in: BE Magazin, no. 1
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2 images
1991
Galerie Dazibao Montreal, Canada “The Problematics Of Identity In Photography”
exhibition catalogue
Andrea Fatona
“Black Male Sexuality” in: Video Out, Vancouver, Fall,
illustrated
1990
Murdo McDonald
“Either/Or” in: Artscribe International, November
1989
Martha Langford, Essay, in: “Anima Mundi: Still Life in Britain” exhibition catalogue Canadian
Museum of Contemporary Photography, 4 images
CMCP Ottawa, Canada
“Photography Month in Montreal” exhibition catalogue, 2
images
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Editorial Board Member of FLAG, a Theoretical
Publication jointly published by Camouflage Art Culture and Politics, Brussel,
Belgium and Co@rtnews Southern African Review of Contemporary Art and Culture,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
He is a London correspondent for Co@rtnews Southern African
Review of Contemporary Art and Culture.
THESES
1998
“What Is in A Print?” Masters Thesis, University
College London, UK. Published in: Oladélé Ajiboye Bamgboyé
“Writings on Technology and Culture” English/Dutch, Witte de With
Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2000
1985
“Design for a Fructose Sugar Manufacturing Plant from Fruit
Residues” Unpublished Honours Thesis, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
UK.
PUBLICATIONS
2000
“Where's the Art?” in: Exhibition catalogue of the
2000 Videobrasil exhibition by Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brasil
“Negotiating the Double Bind - Overcoming the Passé
of the so-called ‘Inclusive’ Art Exhibition” in: “South
Meets West” exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland,
German/English
“Writings on Technology and Culture” Witte de With
Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands, English/Dutch
“Where’s the Art?” in: Co@rtnews Southern African Review of Contemporary Art
and Culture, no. 3, Johannesburg, South Africa
1999
“Negotiating the Double Bind - Overcoming the Passé
of the so-called ‘Inclusive’ Art Exhibition” in:
“Trafique” exhibition catalogue Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele
Kunst
Gent, Belgium,
English/Dutch/French
1998
“The Aesthetics of the Mistaken Identity” in:
“Transatlántico” exhibition catalogue Centro
Atlántico de Arte Moderno Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
SpainSpanish/English
“The Aesthetics of the Mistaken Identity” in: Jornal
de Exposiçao n.32, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
1996
“A Convergence of Planes” in: “Distant Relations
on Roy Mehta” exhibition catalogue Arts Council Autograph and
Cambridge, Darkroom Gallery, UK
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2000
Tate Britain London, UK, Intelligence Artist Forum, panel
member, on the occasion of “Intelligence: New British Art 2000”
Museum of Modern Art
São Paulo, Brasil
“Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporânea” Forum, panel member as
part of the public presentation on the occasion of the “Mostra Africana
de Arte
Contemporânea” exhibition at the SESC
inIVA London, UK, invited
Guest Participant in the “Networks and Markets-Histories” Online
Internet Forum
1999
National Museum of Ghana Accra, Ghana, presentation of
“Negotiating the Double Bind” at the Curatorial Workshop. Other
participants: Peter Kellner (Curator), Kendell Geers (Artist), Bernhard
Fibicher (Director of Kunsthalle Bern), Joe Nkhrouma (Director of National
Museum of Ghana)
DeSingel Antwerp, Belgium, lecture titled “Performative
Simulation in Ancient African Iron Smelting” as part of the concluding
“Laboratorium” lectures series. Other speakers: Okwui Enwezor
(Artistic Director of Documenta
XI), Barbara Vanderlinden (Roomade), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Musée
d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Peter Galison (MIT), Bruno Latour
(Philosopher)
Royal College of Art London, UK, Lecture 1, panel discussion for
“Go Away - Artists and Travel” with: Cuahtémoc Medina (Art
Historian), Hou Hanru (Curator), Andrew Renton (Curator), Kim Sweet (Curator)
(Trans) Africa III-IV Symposium Palais d'Egmont,
Petit Sabon, Bruxelles Belgium, organised as part of the exhibition
“Trafique” Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, with: Erwin
Jans (Theatre Critic),
Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo (Poet and Journalist), Rik Pinxten (Anthropologist,
University of Gent) and Clive Kellner (Independent Curator, Editor-in-Chief of
co@rtnews)
1998
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain “Transatlántico”
Conference, public presentation and panel discussion with selected exhibition
artists
Canal Isabel II, Madrid, Spain “Interference” Photographic
conference, public lecture and presentation of own work
Slade Forum Slade
College, London, UK. Presentation and panel discussion with Robert Bernasconi
(Moss Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA) and Michael Newman
(Head of Historical and Theoretical Studies)
1996
Photo International Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Symposium,
presentation of work of contemporary African photographic artists
ART RESIDENCIES / NOMINATIONS
2000
Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan, Resident Research
Professor
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam,
Netherlands, Recipient of the 6 month Artist-in-Residence Program organized
under the auspices of the Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Sciences, and
Education
1999
ArtPace San Antonio, Texas, “New Works 99:3” Studio
Residency Program
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA, inaugural Visiting
Artist Residency Program, Nomination
INOVA Institute of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA,
Nomination
1992/93 and 1994
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Germany, Studio Residency
Program
1992
Banff Centre For The Arts Banff, Canada “The Race and the
Body Politic“
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS OF:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum \New York, USA
Scottish Arts Council Public Collection Edinburgh, UK
Various private collections in Australia, Canada, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland and the
USA
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