Akosua Adoma Owusu

**Akosua Adoma Owusu** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Anashaara goli January 1, 1984) ka o nyɛ ŋun yaari ka produsiri filimnima.

O chanila shikuru Harvard University mini Pratt Institute din be Brooklyn, New York.

## O piligu mini Shikuru

Owusu laamba nyɛla Ghananima ka bɛ wumsi o Alexandria, Virginia. Ŋuna n-nyɛ bi'bili o laamba bihi ata ni, ka o laamba nyɛ Grace mini Albert A. Owusu, Sr. Owusu malila shɛhira gbaŋ shɛli o ni deei School of Film/Video mini School of Fine Art nima sani California Institute of the Arts, ka o daa deei ki yuuni 2008. O daa lahi deei "Bachelors interdisciplinary degree in Media Studies" mini Studio Art shikuru yuli yuli booni University of Virginia yuuni 2005. Owusu ni yɛn pili tuma o daa nyɛla ŋun tabiri sɔŋdi Chris Rock's HBO documentary "Good Hair" (2009). Din nyaaŋa ka o daa pili o maŋmaŋa tuma, "experimental films".

## Selected exhibitions

*2020: *Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle* at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight
*2019: *Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle* at Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)
*2019: *Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle* at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
*2019: *Between Three Worlds: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu* at REDCAT
*2019: *Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
*2019: *Sala de Video: Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the São Paulo Museum of Art
*2019: *Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond
*2019: *Screening: Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
*2018: *Triple Consciousness* at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; 
*2018: *African Twilight* at the Bowers Museum; 
*2018: *Fragments of a Dream* at the McNay Art Museum; 
*2018: *Screening and Conversation with Director Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the Fowler Museum at UCLA; 
*2017: *Akosua Adoma Owusu and Bus Nut* at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; 
*2016: *Making Africa: Akosua Adoma Owusu* at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona  
*2016: *Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu* at Tabakalera 
*2016: *Encuentro con Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León 
*2016: *L'évènement Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the Centre Georges Pompidou 
*2016: *Triple Consciousness* at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
*2016: *Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016* at the Whitney Museum of American Art 
*2015: *Modern Mondays: An Evening with Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the Museum of Modern Art 
*2015: *Existential Crisis* at the Rochester Art Center
*2015: *America Is Hard to See* at the Whitney Museum of American Art
*2015: *The Art of Hair in Africa* at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
*2015: *Two Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu* at Art and Practice  in association with the Hammer Museum
*2015: *Do/Tell* at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
*2014: *Prospect.3: Notes for Now* New Orleans Triennial
*2013: *Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu* at the Moderna Museet
*2012: *Fore* at the Studio Museum in Harlem
*2012: *The Bearden Project* at the Studio Museum in Harlem
*2011: *VideoStudio: Changing Same* at the Studio Museum in Harlem
*2011: *Quadruple Consciousness* at the Vox Populi (art gallery)
*2009: *30 Seconds Off an Inch* at the Studio Museum in Harlem
*2009: *Me Broni Ba* at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight 

## Pina mini piibu

## Filimnima
### Filmography

## Karim pahi

*Owusu, Akosua Adoma, and Adwoa Adu-Gyamfi. *Me broni ba*. New York, NY: Cinema Guild (2009).
*Baron, Jaimie. *Inappropriate Bodies: Contemporary Filmmakers Challenging Gender Constructions through Appropriation.* http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mw7m95b UCLA Center for the Study of Women (2009).
*Birchall, Danny. *Things Said Again* (2010) Film Quarterly Volume 63, Issue 3, pg. 55-57
*Nelmes, Jill. *Introduction to Film Studies* (2012) https://books.google.com/books?id=AnGrAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22erie%22+%2B+%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22&pg=PT620
*Dovey, Lindiwe. *African Feminist Engagements with Film* (2012) http://www.agi.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/429/feminist_africa_journals/archive/16/fa16_full_pub.pdf , p.&nbsp;18-23.
*Mask, Mia, Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies (2012).
*Kendall, Nzingha, Commentary: Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films (2013). *Black Camera*
*Agyeman, Erica. Akosua Adoma Owusu: Exploring 'Threeness , *The International Review of African American Art* 24.3 (2013), 11–13.
*Prabhu, Anjali. *Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora* https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZ5kAwAAQBAJ&dq=akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PT307 (2014).
*Laderman, David. *Sampling Media* https://books.google.com/books?id=B0WkAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22control%22+%2B+%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22&pg=PA179 (2014).
*UNESCO. *Égalité des genres: patrimoine et créativité* https://books.google.com/books?id=brsPBgAAQBAJ&dq=Cinemas+D%E2%80%99Afrique+%2B+akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PA109 (2014).
*Ellerson, Beti. *Gaze Regimes: Film And Feminisms In Africa* (2015) https://books.google.com/books?id=3DZjDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22+%22triple+consciousness%22&pg=PT50
*Johnson, Elizabeth. *Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas* (2016) https://books.google.com/books?id=x4vpDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22+%22triple+consciousness%22&pg=PA113, p.&nbsp;113.
*Kelly, Gabrielle. *Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through* (2018) https://books.google.com/books?id=N0KeDwAAQBAJ&dq=Celluloid+Ceiling%3A+Women+Film+Directors+Breaking+Through+%2B+%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22&pg=PT24
*Lené Hole, Kristin. *Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction* https://books.google.com/books?id=QCBtDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22+ajube+kete&pg=PT251 (2018).
*Bisschoff, Lizelle. *Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic.* https://books.google.com/books?id=4aS-DwAAQBAJ&dq=Lizelle+Bisschoff+%2B+%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22&pg=PT127 (2019).
*Nyeck, S.N. *Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies* https://books.google.com/books?id=lkPBDwAAQBAJ&dq=reluctantly+queer+akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PT10 (2019).
*Williams, James S. *Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty* https://books.google.com/books?id=rrGIDwAAQBAJ&dq=reluctantly+queer+akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PA179 (2019).
*Dasilva, Dax. *Age of Union: Igniting The Changemaker* https://books.google.com/books?id=eD7YDwAAQBAJ&dq=akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PT98 (2020).
*Huberman, Anthony. *Abbas to Yuki: Writing Alongside Exhibitions* https://books.google.com/books?id=lMNLzAEACAAJ (2020).

## External links

*Official Website
*Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Internet Movie Database
*Akosua Adoma Owusu on MUBI
*Black women filmmakers
*Ghanaian Filmmakers

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