Laylah Ali

**Laylah Ali** (an haife ta a shekarar 1968)  'yar Amurka ce mai zane-zane na zamani. An san ta da zane-zane inda ake nuna dangantakar launin fata mai rikitarwa tare da bayyananniyar hoto da kuma tsarin zane mai ban dariya.  Tana zaune a Williamstown, Massachusetts, kuma farfesa ce a Kwalejin Williams . 

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
A lokacin ƙuruciyarta, Ali da farko ta yi niyyar zama lauya ko likita. 

Ali ta sami digirinta na BA (Turanci da zane-zanen studio) daga Kwalejin Williams, Williamstown, MA a shekarar 1991.  Ta shiga Shirin Nazarin Whitney Mai Zaman Kanta a Gidan Tarihi na Whitney na Fasaha ta Amurka, birnin New York a shekarar 1992, kuma ta kammala karatun zama a Makarantar Zane da Zane ta Skowhegan, Skowhegan, ME a shekarar 1993. Ali ta sami digirinta na MFA a shekarar 1994 daga Makarantar Zane da Zane ta Sam Fox a Jami'ar Washington da ke St. Louis .

## Aiki
A cikin ayyukan Ali na baya, za ta zana ko zana wani abu mai tayar da hankali. Ta fi mai da hankali kan aikin fiye da tashin hankalin kanta. A cikin aikinta na yanzu, ba a mai da hankali sosai kan aikin ba; tana mai da hankali sosai kan abin da ke faruwa kafin da kuma bayan.  Aikin Laylah yana da wani fasali na musamman na haɗa matakin motsin rai. Tana amfani da launuka masu haske da zane-zanen katun don nuna abubuwan da ke faruwa a yanzu da ra'ayoyin zamantakewa da siyasa. Tana amfani da wannan hanyar ta musamman ta rashin amfani da wani takamaiman taron, don masu sauraro su iya tunani ta hanyar fasaha kuma su sami nasu fahimtar. 

Ayyukan zane-zane ne na ƙananan siffofi na gouache da zane-zane a kan takarda. An san ta da shiryawa na tsawon watanni da yawa, tana tsara kowane bayani don haka babu gurbi ga kurakurai. Aikin Ali ya dogara ne akan abubuwan da suka faru a rayuwa. Ko da yake mutum ba zai iya faɗi ba, ta ce duk ayyukanta suna da ma'ana kuma abin da ke cikin tunaninta ya wuce hannunta a kan takarda.  Game da yanayin aikinta, Ali ta ce, "Zane-zanen na iya zama kamar matakai ko saiti marasa kyau, siffofi kamar haruffa a cikin wasan kwaikwayo. Ina ɗaukar su daidai da haruffa da siffofi." 

Aikin Ali ya haɗa da wani abu mai ban dariya. A cewar Charlotte Seaman, "Aikin Ali ba ya dogara ne akan al'adar ilimi ba, amma an san shi da tarihin barkwanci mai yawa, musamman a matsayin sharhin zamantakewa mai ban dariya ko izgili". Ali ta yi amfani da wani ra'ayi na musamman na barkwanci, Seaman ta ce "Ali tana amfani da harshen gani na zane-zane, barkwanci, da kuma wani ɓangare na barkwanci. Abin lura, duk da haka, aikinta ya saba wa barkwanci na launin fata ta yadda ba ya ƙara girman siffofin mutum - maimakon haka akasin haka: yana mayar da mutane zuwa alamu ko ɓoye na ƙwarewar ɗan adam gabaɗaya (kodayake har yanzu suna da launin fata)" 

### Jerin Greenheads
Batun zane-zanen gouache da Ali ya fi shahara a kansu su ne Greenheads - haruffan da aka tsara don rage, kawar da kuma yin tambayoyi game da bambance-bambancen jinsi, tsayi, shekaru, da kuma wasu hanyoyi na launin fata. Ali ya ƙirƙiri fiye da 80 daga cikin waɗannan zane-zane tsakanin 1996 da 2005. Ali ya yi amfani da hotuna da batutuwa daga jaridu, kamar hotunan alamun zanga-zanga ko shugabannin duniya suna runguma, amma ya gyara labaran don ƙirƙirar wani abu mai nisa da sabo. Ali ya tsara haruffa da hotunan don su kasance na musamman amma marasa ma'ana. Suna da ma'ana daga Ali da kanta amma mai kallo ya kawo nasa nassoshi don fassara hoton. Ali ya tsara haruffan don su yi kama da ɗan adam amma ba ɗan adam ba don a cire su daga duniyarmu da yanayin zamantakewa. Suna da ma'ana ta zamantakewa da siyasa duk da haka suna wanzuwa a wajen duniyarmu.

### Jerin Acephalous
Tun daga shekarar 2015, Ali ta fara aiki a kan zane-zanen da ta kira *The Acephalous Series*, wanda ke nuna mutane da aka bayyana a matsayin masu sanin jinsi, waɗanda za a iya danganta su da jima'i ko kuma waɗanda suka shafi jima'i, waɗanda wasu daga cikinsu suna da halaye na launin fata kuma wasu daga cikinsu ba su da kai. "Suna kan tafiya mara iyaka, mai ƙuduri, tafiya mai sassa da yawa," in ji ta, "Yana da abubuwan da ke nuna ƙaura ta dole." 

### Haɗin gwiwa
A shekara ta 2002, Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Zamani, New York, ya ba Ali umarnin ƙirƙirar wani labari mai ban mamaki wanda ba shi da kalmomi.  Mai zane ya haɗu da mai rawa da mai tsara rawa Dean Moss a The Kitchen a shekara ta 2005 da kuma a MASS MoCA a shekara ta 2006 tare da *mutane a filin wasa.*  Daga baya sun fara wasan kwaikwayo a *Some sweet day* a MoMA, New York a shekara ta 2012. *John Brown Song!* wani aiki ne na kan layi wanda Gidauniyar Dia Art Foundation ta ƙaddamar a shekara ta 2013.  An rubuta aikin allon talla na waje na Ali don *Walker without Walls* a Walker Art Center a kakar wasa ta 3 na jerin PBS Art21: Art in the Ashirin da Ɗaya . 

## Tarin abubuwa
Ayyukan Ali suna cikin tarin cibiyoyin gwamnati da dama na dindindin, ciki har da Gidan Tarihi na Studio da ke Harlem ; Gidan Tarihi na Buffalo AKG Art, Buffalo, NY; Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Zamani na Chicago ; Gidan Tarihi na RISD, Providence, RI; Cibiyar Fasaha ta Walker, Minneapolis, MN; da Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Amurka na Whitney da Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Metropolitan da ke birnin New York.  

## Nunin Nunin

### Zaɓaɓɓun nune-nunen kai kaɗai da na rukuni
Laylah Ali ta yi baje kolin a Venice Biennale (2003) da kuma Whitney Biennial (2004).  Sauran baje kolin sun haɗa da:

* 2024: *Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali,* Marion Art Gallery, State University of New York at Fredonia, NY. January 23—April 14, 2024—traveling to University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. February 13—May 9, 2025; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. October 21, 2025—April 19, 2026 (solo & catalog)
* 2021: *Sweaty Concepts*, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
* 2020: *Never Done: 100 Years Of Women In Politics And Beyond*, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
* 2019: *Laylah Ali: The Acephalous Series,* Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. January 29—March 16, 2019 (solo & catalog)
* 2018: *Through-Line: Drawing and Weaving by 19 Artists*, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; *Body / Parts*, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
* 2017: *Laylah Ali: Paintings and Drawings*, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. November 10—December 22, 2017 (solo & catalog)
* 2017: *Laylah Ali: Not Self Portraits*, curated by Lisa Jarrett and Harrell Fletcher, KSMoCA, Portland, OR. May—November, 2017
* 2016: *Black Pulp!* curated by Mark Thomas Gibson and William Villalongo, Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. January 19—March 11, 2016—traveled to Print Center New York, NY. October 12—December 19, 2016; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. June 2—July 20, 2017; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. September 19—December 10, 2017; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA. February 2—April 29, 2018; *Overgrowth*, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; *Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler*, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
* 2015: *The Acephalous Series,* Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
* 2015: *ASSISTED*, curated by Jessica Stockholder, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; *Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s,* Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ—traveled to Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA. June 12—September 20, 2015; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI. October 17, 2015—January 31, 2016; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX. February 17—May 15, 2016
* 2014: *Personal Histories*, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; *Up Every Evening*, Season Gallery, Seattle, WA
* 2013: *The Shadows Took Shape*, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalog); *Ambiguous Histories: Selected Art from the Exit Art Portfolios*, Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; *Laylah Ali & Gerald Cyrus*, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Gallery, Lancaster, PA; *Direct Democracy*, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (catalog); *Painting Between the Lines*, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (catalog); *Revelations: Examining Democracy*, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
* 2012: *Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series*, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA—traveled to Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. March 2—June 30, 2013; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. September 7—December 22, 2013 (solo & catalog)
* 2012: *Thenceforward, and Forever Free*, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; *Under the Influence: The Comics*, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; *The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World*, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalog); *Voluntaries,* MoMA, New York, NY, part of the “Some sweet day” series (collaborative performance with Dean Moss)
* 2011: *The Air We Breathe*, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog); *Painting Between the Lines*, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalog); *Relatos extraordinarios: Laylah Ali and Abigail Lazkoz*, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain (catalog); *Vivid: Female Currents in Painting*, Schroeder Romero &amp;amp; Shredder, New York, NY
* 2010: *Works on Paper from the MCA Collection, *Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; *Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection*, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
* 2009: *Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art.* Art Works for Change, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway—traveled to University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA (2009–2010); Centro Cultural Tijuana and Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2011); Global Health Odyssey Museum, Atlanta, GA (2011); Prospect.2 New Orleans and Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2011); The Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2013); Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain (2013); Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2013); Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada (2014); *Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions from the Walker Art Center*, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; *Massachusetts Review: Celebrating Fifty Years of Covers*, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA; *If I Didn't Care: Generational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories*, The Park School, Baltimore, MD
* 2008: *Laylah Ali: Notes/Drawings/Untitled Afflictions*, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (solo & catalog)
* 2008: *Beyond Drawing: Constructed Realities*, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH; *Fantastical Imaginings*, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE—traveled to Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD (2009); *Political Circus*, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; *On the Margins*, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, MO (catalog); *Disguised*, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; *Out of Shape*, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (catalog); *Taking Possession*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR; *Perverted by Theater*, Apexart, New York, NY; *Pandora's Box*, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (catalog); *Quadrennial 2008*, U-Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalog); *Text/Messages: Books by Artists*, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
* 2007: *the kiss and other warriors, *Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England (solo & catalog)
* 2007: *Drawings from the Typology Series*, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA—traveled to University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (solo & catalog)
* 2006: *Alien Nation*, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England—traveled to Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England (catalog); *Cult Fiction*, Hayward Gallery, London, England (catalog); *Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences*, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (catalog); *Running Around the Pool*, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (catalog); *XXS*, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; *American Matrix*, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; *Black Alphabet*, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (catalog); *Having New Eyes*, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
* 2005: *The Body. The Ruin*, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (catalog); *Cut*, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; *Vivi-Seccion: Dibujo Contemporaneo*, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; 303 Gallery, New York, NY
* 2004: *Laylah Ali: Types, *Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO (solo & catalog)
* 2004: *Whitney Biennial 2004*, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog); *Material Witness*, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (catalog); *The 10 Commandments*, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
* 2003: *Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection*, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA—traveled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (catalog); *Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes*, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalog); *me & more*, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (catalog); *Splat! Boom! Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art*, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX—traveled to ICA, Boston, MA; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (catalog)
* 2002: *Projects 75: Laylah Ali, *The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo & catalog)
* 2002: *Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation*, Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA—traveled to Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (catalog); *Fantasyland*, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY; *First Person Singular*, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; *Painting in Boston*, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
* 2001: *Laylah Ali: 2000 ICA Artist Prize,* Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo & catalog)
* 2001: *Paintings on Paper,* Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (solo)
* 2001: *Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface, Frame*, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; *Freestyle*, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalog); *FRESH: 1998—2000*, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; *Guarene Arte 2001*, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; *A Work in Progress: Selections from the New Museum Collection*, New Museum, New York, NY
* 2000: *Art on Paper 2000*, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
* 1999: *Laylah Ali: Small Aggressions*, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL (solo)
* 1999: *Bizarro World! The Parallel Universes of Comics and Fine Art*, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL; *Collectors Collect Contemporary*, ICA, Boston, MA; *The 1999 deCordova Annual Exhibition*, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalog); *No Place Rather than Here*, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
* 1998: *Paradise 8*, Exit Art, New York, NY; *Posing*, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; *Selections Summer 1998*, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; *Telling Tales*, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

## Kyaututtuka
An ba Laylah Ali kyaututtuka da dama, wuraren zama da kyaututtuka, ciki har da tallafin Joan Mitchell Foundation Fenters and Sculptors Grant a 2008,  Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency a 2018,  a 2006 United States Artists Fellowship,  a 2000 ICA/Boston Artist Prize da kuma gayyata a matsayin mai zane a Tamarind Institute (2019), Yaddo (2015), Dartmouth College (2012), Headlands Center for the Arts (2000), da kuma Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1993). 

## Manazarta