Colette Omogbai

**Colette Omogbai** (1943-?) ta kasance mai zane-zane na Najeriya kuma mai buga takardu na karni na 20 kuma ɗaya daga cikin 'yan mata masu zane-zane da aka sani na ƙungiyar fasahar zamani ta Najeriya.

## Rayuwa ta Farko da Ilimi
An haifi Colette Omogbai a kusa da Benin City, Najeriya .  Ta halarci Kwalejin Fasaha, Kimiyya, da Fasaha ta Najeriya (yanzu Jami'ar Ahmadu Bello) a Zaria kuma ta kammala a shekarar 1964. Ko da yake ba memba ne na Zaria Art Society ba, ta bi ka'idodinta na kira na halitta, wanda ya samo asali daga al'adun Najeriya da dabarun zamani kuma ya karɓi hanyoyin Surrealist. Daga baya, ta fara karatun digiri na biyu a makarantar Slade School of Fine Art a London.

## Ayyuka
Omogbai ta fara shiga cikin fasahar zamani ta *Najeriya* tare da nune-nunen zane-zane a 1963 a Mbari Mbayo Club a Ibadan, Najeriya.  Daga baya aka buga zane-zanenta a cikin mujallar wallafe-wallafen Mbari *Black Orpheus* (Fabrairu 1964).  A cikin bita na wani daga cikin nune-nunen da ta yi ba da daɗewa ba a Cibiyar Nune-nune a Legas, Babatunde Lawal a cikin mujallar Najeriya ta bayyana ta a matsayin "marar taɓawa ta mata". Ta amsa a cikin wata kasida mai rikitarwa a cikin wannan littafin a shekarar 1965, "Mutum yana son abin da ke da dadi da bayyane", ta hanyar "ƙaddamar da sukar tasirin ubanni na tsofaffin masu zane-zane na zamani waɗanda suka nace cewa yara dole ne su jira lokacin su. "  A cewar masanin fasahar Afirka Chika Okeke-Agulu, rubutun Omogbai ya nuna wani canji a tarihin fasahar kasar, yana nuna "lokacin lokacin da ƙwararren zamani na zamani ya tsere daga wurin zama na zamani da aka ɗauka don tabbatar da muryarta ta baya, a shirye don fuskantar sautin da ta baya".

A cikin littafin bincike na Contemporary Art in Africa (1968), mai sukar fasaha kuma wanda ya kafa Mbari Ulli Beier ya bayyana Omogbai (ɗaya daga cikin 'yan mata masu zane-zane da aka haɗa) kamar yadda yake da "style mai ƙarfi na kansa. Jigogi ne game da baƙin ciki, wahala, sake halitta, la'ana da haɗari. Halinsa yana da ƙarfi. . . . Gabaɗaya ra'ayi yana da duhu da ƙarfi. Aikace-aikacen fenti koyaushe yana da ban sha'awa, fuskarsa tana da rai.

A cikin bayyana ayyukan Omogbai shekaru goma bayan haka, Mataimakin Curator a Gidan Tarihi na zamani Howardena Pindell ya rubuta cewa "Ta kirkiro waƙoƙi masu ƙarfin zuciya, masu nunawa ta hanyar yin amfani da siffofi masu tsayi, baƙar fata, ja, da shuɗi waɗanda ke ke kewaye da fararen zane-zane. "Wasuwan itacen katako na iya samun ƙarfin zuciya, layin da ke ba da damar fararen takarda ya nuna ta hanyar".  Wani masanin ya kira aikinta "wa na gani na nau'i mai zurfi".

Omogbai na daga cikin ƙananan ƙungiyar mata masu zane-zane na Najeriya na wannan lokacin, kamar su Afi Ekong, Etso Clara Ugbodaga-Ngu, da Ladi Kwali, waɗanda suka sami kulawa ta ƙasa da ta duniya saboda ayyukansu kuma suna fuskantar sake dawowa da kulawa mai mahimmanci a yau. Mai kula da Pavilion na Najeriya na 2024 a Venice Biennale Aindrea Emelife ta ce a cikin wata hira cewa da ta so ta hada da Omogbai saboda: "Ina jin aikinta zai ci gaba da mayar da hankali ga masu zane-zane na mata na Najeriya, amma kuma ga juriya na daidaituwa. Yana da mahimmanci cewa 'style na kasa' yana iya tsayayya kuma Omogbai, kamar dai, ya yarda".

A shekara ta 1976, Omogbai ya sami digiri na biyu a fannin ilimin fasaha daga Jami'ar New York . Ta koma Najeriya a wannan shekarar kuma ta shiga aikin gwamnati na Najeriya a matsayin malamin fasaha da mai gudanarwa. [1] An ruwaito cewa ta daina yin zane-zane don zama ma'aikaciyar gwamnati ta cikakken lokaci da kuma mai gudanarwa.[2]

Ba a san inda yawancin ayyukanta suke a yau ba, amma zanen ta Agony (1963) ya kasance wani ɓangare na nune-nunen da yawa, gami da:

* Neue Kunst a Afrika (Sabon Fasaha a Afirka), Mainz, Jamus, Yuni 1980; Bayreuth, Jamus, Yuli-Agusta 1980; Wörgl, Austria, Satumba 1980 
* Bayan yaƙi: Art Tsakanin Pacific da Atlantic,1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Oktoba 2016 zuwa Maris 2017 
* *Niepodległe: Mata, 'Yancin kai da Magana ta Kasa*, Muzeum, Gidan Tarihi na zamani a Warsaw, 2018-2019 
* *A cikin dare: Cabarets & Clubs a cikin fasahar zamani*, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2019-2020
* *Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence da Mbari Club* a Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, 2022 
* Shirin Black Planet: Fasaha da Al'adu na Panafrica, Cibiyar Fasaha ta Chicago, 2024 

## Rayuwa ta mutum
Omogbai ya auri Yarima Emmanuel Eberechukwu Onyeka a shekarar 1969. Daga bisani ta koma Amurka.

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