Marcia Kure

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.

 Early life den education 
Na dem born Kure insyd Kano State, Nigeria. She train for de University of Nigeria, Nsukka under Obiora Udechukwu, wey she graduate insyd 1994 plus a Bachelor of Arts insyd painting.Simon Ottenberg, New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka group, (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997) p. 153
 Professional career den work 
Na Kure ein early work focus for political violence den de agency of women insyd patriarchal society.See Ozioma Onuzulike, "Marcia Kure: Not Just a Cloth," Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter, 2001): p. 85. Ein later work be concerned plus themes wey relate to motherhood, haute couture fashion, den hip-hop aesthetics.Sara. "Forged and Forced Unions: Interview with Marcia Kure | Art/ctualité". Retrieved 9 July 2019. She be represented by Susan Inglett Gallery (New York), Purdy Hicks Gallery (London) den Officine Dell'Immagine (Milan)."Marcia Kure". www.officinedellimmagine.com. Retrieved 9 July 2019.

 Exhibitions den collections 
Kure get ein New York debut for de Skoto Gallery insyd 1995. Na solo exhibitions include:

 Goethe-Institut, Lagos
 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York. 

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

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

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.

Kure participate insyd:

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

 Prizes/awards/grants 

 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 

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

 References 

Category:Living people
Category:University of Nigeria alumni
Category:1970 births
Category:21st-century Nigerian painters
Category:Nigerian women painters
Category:Nigerian people
Category:Human
Category:People wey komot Kano
Category:Nigerian expatriates insyd de United States
Category:American artists of Nigerian descent