Bisa Butler

**Bisa Butler** (bɛ dɔɣi o la **Mailissa Yamba Butle yuuni** 1973) ka o nyɛ African-American ŋun nyɛ nuuni tuunbaŋda. O maanila binyɛra ka di ŋmanila bɛ peentiri li mi. O nyɛla ŋun maani anfooninima ka di wuhiri tarihi ni binyɛra mini tarimba zaa nahingbana. O tumanima shɛŋa nyɛla din pa kali pahi Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Art Institute of Chicago, Pérez Art Museum Miami ni binkura biɛhisi shee yaɣa din pahi be duniya. O tuma lahi be Smithsonian Museum of American History, Epcot Center,  National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, ni luɣa pam. Yuuni 2020, bɛ daa puhi o ni o mali anfooninima n-ti ''Time'' magazine, n-ti pahi "Person of the Year" yɛltɔɣa nima mini di "100 Women of the Year" yɛltɔɣa.

## Piligu biɛhigu
Bisa Butler, bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Mailissa Yamba Butler, tiŋ'shɛli bɛ ni daa dɔɣi o n-nyɛ Orange, New Jersey, ka o zooi South Orange, ka naai shikuru Columbia High School yuuni 1991. O ma nyɛla Faransi karimma ŋun yina New Orleans ka o ba nyɛ bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Ghana. Ŋuna n-nyɛ bia bɛ daŋ ni, Butler malila beya ata. Bɛ ni daa dɔɣi Butler, o biɛli ŋun nyɛ paɣa maa daa bi tooi booni o yuli maa ka ŋmaali jia "Ba-Bisa" ni Bisa. O daa nyɛla ŋun di nuuni tuunbaŋsim pini o ni daa nyɛ yuma anahi.

Butler daa bɔhim mi jendi "fine art" ka daa naai shikuru yuli booni Howard University, ni ka o daa bɔhim Romare Bearden tuma, ka o mini Lois Mailou Jones nima laɣim chaŋ lala shikuru ŋɔ, ka bɛ karimbanima nyɛ Elizabeth Catlett, Jeff Donaldson, ni Ernie Barnes. Tuuli peentibu ka o daa bɔhim. ka daa naan yi ti pili kanvaasinima malibu.

Butler daa chaŋ ya ti niŋ "master's degree in art education" shikuru yuli booni Montclair State University yuuni 2004.

O nuuni tuunbaŋsim ŋɔ nyaaŋa, Butler daa lahi wuhirila nuuni tuunbaŋsim Newark Public Schools. Saha ŋɔ o pa bela West Orange, New Jersey ka lahi tumdi ni.

## Exhibitions
O tumanima giliya pam. Yuni 2018, o tuma daa chaŋ EXPO Chicago ka *[[Newcity]] daa niŋ nintiɣili ni dina* n-ti pahi *[[Chicago Reader]]*. Anashaara goli February 2019, o tumanima daa pahi Romare Bearden dini zuɣu *The Art of Jazz*,  Black History Month exhibition din daa niŋ Morristown, New Jersey. Butler's tuma be bukunima ni kamani *Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama* (2010) ni *Collaborations: Two Decades of African American Art : Hearne Fine Art 1988-2008* (2008), ni pɔhim zuɣu yaɣa kamani Blavity ni Colossal. Yuuni 2019, o daa nyɛla ŋun be Museum of Art and Design's Burke Prize kpalinkpaa ni.

Butler's ko tuuli tuma ni yɛn binkura duu daa nyɛla *Bisa Butler: Portraits* ka ban daa naai noli laɣim li nyɛ Art Institute of Chicago mini Katonah Museum of Art. Bɛ daa zali dabisili ni bɛ yooi lk Katonah Museum of Art bɛ din gbaai Anashaara goli March 15 zaŋ chaŋ Anashaara goli June 14, 2020; amaa, di ni daa niŋ ka bɛ na kparili COVID-19 pandemic doro zuɣu, bɛ daa tirisi di yoobu chaŋ Anashaara goli October 4, 2020.

Bini din gbaai Anashaara goli May 13, 2022 zaŋ chaŋ Anashaara goli April 2, 2023, Butler's quilt *Harlem Hellfighters* daa nyɛla din zaŋ wuhi Renwick Gallery's "This Present Moment".

Bini din gbaai Anashaara goli November 17, 2022 zaŋ chaŋ Anashaara goli March 12, 2023, Skirball Cultural Center zali "Fabric of a Nation": American Quilt Stories, luŋ'shɛli din daa mali nuuni tuunbaŋdiba tuma gari pihinahi, ka Bisa Butler dini be din ni.

Bini din gbaai Anashaara goli May 6, 2023 zaŋ chaŋ Anashaara goli June 30, 2023, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery daa yina ni Butler's tuma: The World Is Yours.

## Public collections
* Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
* Art Institute of Chicago, IL
* Newark Museum of Art, NJ
* Orlando Museum of Art, FL
* Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
* Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
* Mount Holyoke Art Museum, Hadley, MA
* Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
* 21c Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
* Toledo Museum of Art, OH
* Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL

## Solo exhibitions
* Essex County College, Newark, NJ - 2003
* Essex County College, Newark, NJ - 2004
* Organic Soul, NJ - 2006
* Home of Lonnie Austin show, solo exhibit - 2008
* Astahs Fine Art Gallery, Maplewood, NJ - 2008
* Quilt Me A Story, Bloomfield College, NJ - 2008
* Morristown Courthouse, Morristown, NJ - 2015
* Hearne fine art, Faces in Man Places - 2015
* NEWARK Academy, Livingston, NJ - 2015
* Domareki Gallery, Maplewood, NJ - 2015
* Firehouse Gallery, Valley Arts, Orange, NJ - 2015
* Richard Beavers Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - 2016
* The Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS - 2017
* "The Storm, The Whirlwind & The Earthquake" Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY - 2020
* Bisa Butler, Katonah Museum of Art, NY - 2020
* Bisa Butler, Art Institute of Chicago, IL - 2020 - 2021
* Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, NY - 2023-2023 

## Lihi pahi

* Stephen Towns
* Faith Ringold
* Sheila Hicks
* Carolyn Mazloomi
* Diedrick Brackens
* Michael James

## Kundivihira

## External links
* Official website 
* Bisa Butler on Instagram
* Cover of ''Fiber Art Now'' magazine, Spring 2019
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