Marcia Kure

**Marcia** pronunciation ⓘ (an haife ta a shekarar 1970) 'yar Najeriya ce mai zane-zanen gani wadda aka fi sani da zane-zanen kafofin watsa labarai daban-daban da zane-zane waɗanda suka shafi yanayi da asalin masu ra'ayin bayan mulkin mallaka.  

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Kure a Jihar Kano, Najeriya.  Ta yi horo a Jami'ar Najeriya, Nsukka a ƙarƙashin Obiora Udechukwu, ta kammala karatun digiri a fannin zane a shekarar 1994. 

## Aiki da kuma sana'a
Aikin farko na Kure ya mayar da hankali kan tashin hankali na siyasa da kuma wakilcin mata a cikin al'ummar uba .  Aikinta na baya ya shafi jigogi da suka shafi uwa, salon kwalliya mai kyau, salon hip-hop, da kuma gogewarta ta ƙaura.     An kwatanta salon Kure da uli na zamani, al'adar zane-zane mai zurfi ta matan Igbo na gabashin Najeriya wadda ke da siffofi masu layi da ƙarancin amfani da launi. Sau da yawa tana haɗa launuka na gargajiya na Afirka, gami da goro da kofi. 

Hotunan mata masu lullubi galibi suna bayyana a cikin ayyukan Kure, farawa daga *Purdah* a 1992.  Ta sake duba hotunan mata masu lullubi kuma ta yi hulɗa da yadi don bincika yanayin da ke tsakanin jinsi da iko.  An nuna aikin Kure a cikin kalandar "Masu Fasaha na Afirka na Gaba" ta Multichoice Africa ta 2002. 

A wata hira da aka yi da ita a shekarar 2015 ga *ARTCTUALITE*, Kure ta bayyana tasirin sararin samaniya a kan aikinta, tana mai cewa "tana ƙoƙarin yin jayayya ga mutanen da ba su da sarari mai faɗi," da kuma hanyoyin da ta haɗa dabarun ado na Yammacin duniya tare da na Afirka:

*Susan Inglett Gallery* (New York), *Purdy Hicks Gallery* (London) da kuma *Officeine Dell'Immagine* (Milan) ne suka wakilci Kure.    A halin yanzu tana zaune kuma tana aiki a Princeton, New Jersey da Abuja da Kaduna, Najeriya .

### Nune-nunen da tarin abubuwa
Kure ta fara nuna wasanninta na farko a birnin New York a wani wasan kwaikwayo na rukuni a Skoto Gallery a shekarar 1995.  Nunin da ta yi *shi kaɗai* a shekarar 2000 a Goethe-Institut da ke Legas ya nuna wani wasan kwaikwayo inda mata sanye da burka suka yi rawa irin ta hip hop ga Afrobeat .  Ta yi wasu nunin fina-finai guda biyu a Purdy Hicks Gallery da ke Landan da kuma Susan Inglett Gallery da ke New York. 

An nuna ayyukan Kure a cikin nunin rukuni, a cibiyoyi kamar Gidan Tarihi na Kemper na Fasaha ta Zamani, Sabon Gidan Tarihi da ke New York, Gidan Tarihi na Barbican da ke Landan, Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha ta Ƙasa da ke Legas, da Cibiyar Fasaha ta Zamani ta WIELS da ke Brussels . 

An kuma nuna ayyukanta a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Afirka na Ƙasa a Smithsonian Institution, Gidan Tarihi na Burtaniya, Gidan Tarihi na Kwalejin Spelman na Fasaha ta Fine a Atlanta, Gidan Tarihi na Newark, Asibitin Cleveland, Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha ta North Carolina, Wanås Konst Sculpture Park, Royal Institute of Art a Stockholm,  Centre Pompidou, Sindika Dokolo Foundation a Luanda, Ofishin Jakadancin Amurka a Abuja,  da Cibiyar Zane ta Menil a Houston. 

Kure ta halarci tarukan fasaha na duniya, ciki har da bikin Sharjah International Biennial na 2005,  bikin fasaha na duniya Biennial na zamani na 2006 a Seville (wanda Okwui Enwezor ya shirya), da kuma *bikin La Triennial* a 2013.

Daga watan Janairu zuwa Maris na 2014, Kure ya kasance mai zane a gidan adana kayan tarihi na Victoria da Albert da ke Landan. 

### Kyaututtuka/kyauta/tallafi
Kure ta sami kyaututtuka da tallafi da dama a tsawon aikinta. A shekarar 1994, an karrama ta da kyautar Uche Okeke saboda zane. Daga baya, a shekarar 2004, ta sami kyautar tallafin karatu ta Elena Prentice Rulon-Miller da tallafin karatu na aikin tsiraru daga Makarantar Sana'o'i ta Haystack Mountain . Tsakanin 2007 da 2008, an ba ta kyautar Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship da kuma kyautar Program Puffin Grant don *Burqua a matsayin sassaka* a Charleston, South Carolina .

### Koyarwa
Kure ta riƙe muƙaman koyarwa a cibiyoyi daban-daban. A shekara ta 2004, ta kammala aikin koyarwa a Makarantar St. Mark's da ke Southborough, Massachusetts . [1] Kwanan nan, a shekara ta 2019, ta koyar a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Royal da ke Stockholm, Sweden. [1]

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