Wura-Natasha Ogunji
In ‘Disguise’, Brooklyn Museum, until September 18, 2016.
My father and I dance in outer space.
About:
A performance and visual artist who works in a variety of mediums, Wura-Natasha Ogunji is best known for her videos, in which she uses her own body to explore movement and mark-making across water, land and air. Her current performance series entitled ‘Mo gbo mo branch/I heard and I branched myself into the party’ explores the presence of women in public space in Lagos, Nigeria.
2014.
Oyibo vs Herself, 2014.
Ballast, 2010.
Even the dj must die, 2015.
Ogunji has received a number of awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2012) and grants from the Idea Fund, Houston (2010), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2005). She has performed at Centre for Contemporary Art (Lagos), The Menil Collection (Houston) and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (St. Louis). Ogunji received a BA in Anthropology from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, in 1992 and a MFA in Photography from San Jose State University, CA, in 1998. She lives in Austin and Lagos. (text website artist)