Senga Nengudi

**Senga Nengudi** (née **Sue Irons**; bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli September biɛɣ'pishi ni ayi ka dali yuuni 1943) nyɛla African-American nucheeni baŋda. O nyɛla niriba pam ni mi so ka di nyɛla o nucheeni baŋsim tuma zuɣu. O nyɛla ŋun be African-American nucheeni baŋdiba laɣingu din be New York City mini Los Angeles ni tum yuuni 1960s.

Nengudi nyɛla bɛ ni daa piigi so yuuni 2023 Nasher Prize Laureate zaŋ n-ti o tohibu n-ti nucheeni baŋsim ni.

## Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim
Nengudi nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Chicago, Illinois yuuni 1943. Din daa niŋ ka o ba daa kpi yuuni 1949, o daa chaŋ Los Angeles mini Pasadena ni o ma.  O dachee  Eileen Abdulrashid gba nyɛla nucheeni baŋda.

Din daa niŋ ka o naai Dorsey High School, Nengudi daa bɔhim "art and dance" yuuni 1960s shikuru yuli booni California State University, Los Angeles ka daa yina ni   bachelor's degree yuuni 1967. O daa lahi niŋ yuuni yini Waseda University din be Tokyo n-daa bɔhindi nucheeni baŋsim Gutai Art Association. Yuuni 1967, o daa labi California State University n-daa ti nya Master of Arts degree in sculpture yuuni 1971. O collagɛ saha yuuni 1965, o daa kpɛ la Watts Towers Art Center saha shɛli Noah Purifoy ni daa nyɛ dirata. O daa lahi nyɛla nucheeni baŋsim karimba Pasadena Art Museum mini Fine Arts Community Workshop.

O daa nyɛla ŋun labi New York City saha bela ka leei tooi nyɛ ŋun kanna New York City and Los Angeles saha kam. Yuuni 2016 o daa nya honorary arts degree shikuru yuli booni Colorado College. O nyɛla ŋun tumdi Colorado Springs, Colorado ni ka o be ni o yidana, Elliott Fittz.



## Notable works in public collections

**Water Composition I* (1970, refabricated 2019), Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, New York; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
**R.S.V.P.* (1975), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
**R.S.V.P. Fall 1976* (1976, refabricated 2017), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
**R.S.V.P. V* (1976), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
**R.S.V.P. X* (1976, refabricated 2014), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
**Swing Low* (1976, refabricated 2014), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
**Untitled* (1976), Museum of Modern Art, New York
**Inside/Outside* (1977), Brooklyn Museum, New York
**Internal I* (1977, refabricated 2014), Whitney Museum, New York
**Internal II* (1977, refabricated 2015), Tate, London
**Performance with "Inside/Outside"* (1977), Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
**R.S.V.P. I* (1977, refabricated 2003), Museum of Modern Art, New York
**R.S.V.P. XI* (1977, refabricated 2004), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
**R.S.V.P. Reverie-"B" Suite* (1977, refabricated 2011), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
**Ceremony for Freeway Fets* (1978), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
**R.S.V.P. Performance Piece* (1978, refabricated 2012), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
**Revery - R* (2011), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
**R.S.V.P. Reverie "Bow Leg"* (2014), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

## Selected publications
* Nengudi, Senga; Fabric Workshop and Museum (2007). Senga Nengudi. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Fabric Workshop and Museum. 
* Nengudi, Senga; Warehouse Gallery (2012). Senga Nengudi : lov u. Syracuse, New York: Warehouse Gallery. 
* Nengudi, Senga; Claus, Elisabeth (2012). Senga Nengudi. Aschaffenburg, Bavaria: Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg e.V. KunstLANDing. 
* Nengudi, Senga; Jones, Kellie; White Cube (2014). Senga Nengudi : alt. London, England: White Cube. 
* Nengudi, Senga; Jones, Kellie; Luard, Honey; Feaver, Dorothy; White Cube (2014). Senga Nengudi : Alt : inside the White Cube. 
* Nengudi, Senga; Burnett Abrams, Nora; Auther, Elissa; Jones, Amelia; Pitts Angaza, Gregory (2015). Senga Nengudi : improvisational gestures. Denver, Colorado: Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. 
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## Kundivihira

## External links
*Senga Nengudi website 
*Senga Nengudi papers, 1947, circa 1962-2017, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
*Senga Nengudi, MoMA
*Senga Nengudi on MoMA Learning
*Senga Nengudi on the African American Performance Art Archive
*"Senga Nengudi", Radical Presence NY