Azu Nwagbogu

**Mba">Azu Nwagbogu** (amụrụ n'afọ 1975) bụ onye Naijiria na-ahụ maka nka na National Geographic Explorer at Large .  Ọ bụ onye guzobere na onye nduzi nke African Artists' Foundation, LagosPhoto Festival na onye okike nke Art Base Africa, oghere mebere emepe nke a raara nye ịchọpụta na ịghọta nka na diaspora nke oge a. Royal Photographic Society nyere ya "Curator of Year" na 2021,  ma tinye ya na ndepụta ArtReview nke 100 ndị kachasị ike n'ụwa nka na 2021, 2022 na 2023.  Ọ ga-elekọta ụlọ ọrụ mmeghe nke Benin na Venice Biennale na 2024.  

## Ndụ na ọrụ
A mụrụ Azu Nwagbogu na 1975 na Lagos, Nigeria. Agụmakwụkwọ ya dị elu gụnyere nzere na Mahadum Benin na Benin, Naịjirịa na 1997 na Mahadum Cambridge na 2005. 

N'afọ 2007, o hiwere The African Artists' Foundation (AAF), ọgbakọ anaghị akwụ ụgwọ dabere na Lagos, Nigeria.  Ụlọ ọrụ ndị nka nke Africa na-akwalite nka na ndị na-ese ihe n'Africa site na ihe ngosi, mmemme, asọmpi, ebe obibi, na ogbako.  Ụlọ ọrụ ndị na-ese ihe n'Africa nwere na nguzobe nke National Art Competition na 2008, LagosPhoto Festival na 2010 na mmemme obibi ya mere ka mba ụwa mara banyere mmepụta ihe nke Africa.

Na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-ahụ maka ọrụ n'onwe ya, ọ haziri ihe ngosi na ụlọ ọrụ zuru ụwa ọnụ gụnyere 'Nke a bụ Lagos' na African Artists' Foundation (2009), 'Dey Your Lane! Lagos Variations' na BOZAR The Centre for Fine Arts (2016),  'Tear my Bra' maka Rencontres d'Arles (2016),  'Samuel Fosso: An African Odyssey' maka Photo Espana na Madrid (2018)  na 'James Ostrer: Johnny Just Came' na Gazelli Art House, London (2018).N'afọ 2018, ọ haziri ihe ngosi 'Colomental' na Staatliche Museen nke nyochara echiche iji gbasaa Ebe Ngosi Ihe Mgbe Ochie karịa echiche ndị dị n'Ebe Ọdịda Anyanwụ na otu esi etinye omenala na nka ndị na-abụghị nke Ọdịda Ọdịda anyanwụ.

Na 2017, a họpụtara ya Curator na nnukwu foto na Zeitz MOCAA Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.[1]  Ọ ghọrọ Chief Curator n'afọ sochirinụ wee jee ozi dị ka onye isi ruo 2018. Na 2019, ọ chịkọtara ihe ngosi ahụ 'Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday', nke gụnyere ọrụ sitere n'aka ndị nka 40 si Africa na ndị si mba ọzọ.[2]  Ihe ngosi ahụ lebara isiokwu nke njem na mbugharị site n'echiche na ihe ndị ọzọ.  N'otu afọ ahụ, ọ chịkọtara ihe ngosi ahụ 'Gịnị Mere M Kwesịrị Ịla azụ: Ịme Ihe Na-arụ Ọrụ', bụ nke gosipụtara ọrụ onye na-ese ihe William Kentridge, gụnyere ọrụ ndị a na-ahụ maka oge mbụ na South Africa.

N'afọ 2021, ọ malitere ọrụ mweghachi 'Searching For Prince Adewale Oyenuga' na Malaga na Lagos. N'afọ 2022, Nwagbogu malitere ọrụ ngosi, 'Dig Where You Stand, From Coast to Coast (DWYS) ' nke gosipụtara ụdị ọhụrụ nke itinye aka na ajụjụ nke decolonization, restitution, na repatriation. E gosipụtara ihe ngosi ahụ na mbụ na Savannah Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) nke Ibrahim Mahama na Tamale, Ghana. Usoro ihe ngosi ahụ nyochara ikike ime ka nka dị ọhụrụ gafee kọntinent Afrịka na diasporas ya site n'ịgbanwe usoro ọchịchị nke ndị na-achị ala ọzọ site na ebe ngosi ihe mgbe ochie nke ọdịda anyanwụ.

N'afọ 2022, a họpụtara Azu Nwagbogu ka ọ bụrụ otu n'ime ndị na-ahụ maka ọrụ mbụ nke Buro Stedelijk, ikpo okwu ọhụrụ maka nka Africa nke oge a dabere na Amsterdam.[1]  Na 2023, National Geographic Society kpọrọ ya 'Explorer at Large', n'ịghọta nkwa ya n'ịdekọ omenala na gburugburu ụwa dị iche iche.

Onye isi ala Patrice Talon họpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ onye isi nlekọta nke ụlọ ọrụ Benin na Venice Biennale .  Pavilion nke 2024 ga-edozi ajụjụ nke mweghachi na ihe osise pụrụ iche site na ndị na-ese ihe Romuald Hazoumé, Chloe Quenum, Ishola Akpo na Moufoli Bello. Ihe osise ahụ ga-enyocha ụmụ nwanyị Afrịka ma dọrọ na Gelede nke bụ emume ụmụ nwanyị na-eme iji kwanyere nne mbụ ùgwù, yana ụzọ isi mee emume ime mmụọ na nke anụ ahụ nke ụmụ nwanyị na obodo Yoruba.  Nwagbogu kọwara na ụlọ ahụ bụ ndọtị nke ihe ngosi 2022 'The Art of Benin of Yesterday and Today: from Restitution to Revelation', nke gosipụtara ihe 26 nke Beninois nke ndị agha France zuuru na 1892 mana emesịa laghachi na mba ahụ site na Quai Branly Museum nke France. Ihe ngosi ahụ gụnyere ihe osise nke oge a nke meghachiri omume na ihe ndị e zuuru dị afọ 200. Nwagbogu ga-enye ụzọ yiri nke ahụ iji weghachite ihe ọmụma site na nka.

Ọ na-eje ozi na juri, bọọdụ ndụmọdụ, na ndị otu curatorial gụnyere Dutch Doc (2012 – 15), POPCAP Photography Awards (2012 – 22), Prisma Photography Award (2015), Greenpeace Photo Award (2016), New York Times Pọtụfoliyo Review  (2017–20), Magnum Photography Award (2017), [1] W. Eugene Smith Award (2018), Photo Espana (2018), Foam Paul Huf Award (2019), Wellcome Photography Prize (2019), Foto World Press  (2020), Social Impact Art Prize (2020), Photo Vogue Festival (2015 -), [2] na Prix Carmignac (2022), Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) (2022), Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant maka foto (2022).  2022), Nturu ugo foto isi na emume FORMAT (2022).

## Akwụkwọ ndị e bipụtara
Na 2014, o hiwere akwụkwọ akụkọ ntanetị Art Base Africa nke na-elekwasị anya na nka nke oge a sitere na Africa na ndị mba ọzọ.

O nyela aka n'ọtụtụ akwụkwọ, gụnyere Martin Roemers: Metropolis (2016), Joana Choumali: Hâbré, ọgbọ ikpeazụ (2018), Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design (2015), Africa Under the Prism Contemporary African Photography from LagosPhoto Festival (2015), Dey your Lane! Lagos Variations (2015) na Raquel Van Haver - Spirits Of The Soil (2018).

## Nkwado
Na 2021, Royal Photographic Society na United Kingdom nyere Azu Nwagbogu 'Curator of Year'.[1]  A họọrọ ya 87 na ntuziaka ArtReview maka ọnụ ọgụgụ 100 kachasị ike na nka nke oge a wee pụta na 2021 na 2022.[2] [3]  A họpụtara ya dị ka Curator maka Prix Decouverte Rencontres d'Arles (2014), Photoquai (2015), Photolux Festival (2015) na Breda Photo (2018)..

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