Colette Omogbai

**Colette Omogbai** (1943-?) bụ onye omenkà na onye na-ebipụta akwụkwọ na Naịjirịa nke narị afọ nke 20, ọ bụkwa otu n'ime ụmụ nwanyị ole na ole a ma ama n'ihe gbasara nka ọgbara ọhụrụ nke Naịjirịa.

## Ndụ Mbido na Agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Colette Omogbai na nso Benin City, Nigeria .  Ọ gara kọleji nka, sayensị, na teknụzụ nke Naịjirịa (nke bụzi Mahadum Ahmadu Bello) na Zaria wee gụchaa akwụkwọ na 1964. Ọ bụ ezie na ọ bụghị onye otu Zaria Art Society, o gbasoro iwu ya nke imepụta ihe okike, nke sitere na ihe nketa Naịjirịa na usoro ọgbara ọhụrụ wee nabata ụzọ Surrealist.. Mgbe e mesịrị, ọ malitere ịmụ akwụkwọ na Slade School of Fine Art na London.

## Ọrụ
Omogbai mere ka ọ banye n'ihe nkiri nka nke oge a na Naijiria site na ngosipụta dị egwu nke ihe osise na 1963 na Mbari Mbayo Club na Ibadan, Naijiria. E mechara bipụta ihe osise ya na akwụkwọ akụkọ bari *Black Orpheus* (February 1964).  N'ime nyocha nke ihe ngosi ya ọzọ n'oge na-adịghị anya mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị na Exhibition Centre na Lagos, Babatunde Lawal na magazin *Naịjirịa* kọwara ya dị ka "enweghị aka nwanyị". Ọ zaghachiri n'otu edemede na-ese okwu n'otu mbipụta ahụ na 1965, "Nwoke hụrụ ihe dị ụtọ na nke doro anya", site na "iji obi ike katọọ ike ike ndị nna ochie nke ndị omenkà nke oge a bụ ndị siri ọnwụ na ụmụaka ga-echere oge ha".  DDịka ọkà mmụta nka Afrịka bụ́ Chika Okeke-Agulu si kwuo, edemede Omogbai gosipụtara mgbanwe dị ukwuu n'akụkọ ihe mere eme nka nke mba ahụ, na-egosi "oge mgbe mmụọ nke oge ọgbara ọhụrụ mgbe ọchịchị onye kwuo uche ya gasịrị gbapụrụ n'ọkụ ilu wee fega, dị njikere ịlụso ihe gara aga na ugbu a ọgụ n'olu nke ya, dị njikere ikwupụta nkwupụta ya n'isi ihe nka Naịjirịa.

N'akwụkwọ nyocha Contemporary Art in Africa (1968), onye na-enyocha nka na onye guzobere Mbari Ulli Beier kọwara Omogbai (otu n'ime ụmụ nwanyị ole na ole na-ese ihe gụnyere) dị ka onye nwere "ụdị siri ike nke ya. Isiokwu ya bụ abstractions banyere iru uju, ihe mgbu, ihe okike, ọbụbụ ọnụ na ihe mberede. . . . Mmetụta ya n'ozuzu ya bụ ọchịchịrị na oke. Ojiji nke ihe osise na-adọrọ mmasị mgbe niile, elu ya dị ndụ.

N'ịkọwa ọrụ Omogbai afọ iri ka e mesịrị, Associate Curator na Museum of Modern Art Howardena Pindell dere na "Ọ na-emepụta ihe siri ike, nke na-egosipụta ihe site na iji ụdị ojii, nke na'acha ọbara ọbara, na nke na-acha anụnụ anụnụ nke ihe osise na-acha ọcha gbara gburugburu mgbe niile. "Ihe osise osisi ya nwere ike ịnwe akara siri ike, na-enye ohere ka akwụkwọ ọcha pụta ìhè".  Onye ọkà mmụta ọzọ kpọrọ ọrụ ya "abụ uri anya nke ụdị dị egwu".

Omogbai so n'ime obere ìgwè ụmụ nwanyị Naijiria na-ese ihe n'oge ahụ, dị ka Afi Ekong, Etso Clara Ugbodaga-Ngu, na Ladi Kwali, bụ ndị nwetara nlebara anya mba na nke mba ụwa maka ọrụ ha ma na-enwe nlebara ntị dị egwu taa. Onye nlekọta nke 2024 Nigeria Pavilion na Venice Biennale Aindrea Emelife kwuru n'ajụjụ ọnụ na ọ gaara achọ itinye Omogbai n'ihi na: "Echere m na ọrụ ya ga-enye aka n'ịtụle ndị inyom Naijiria na-ese ihe, kamakwa na nguzogide nke nkwekọrịta. Ọ dị mkpa na 'ụdị mba' nwere ike iguzogide Omogbai, o yiri ka ọ kwenyere".

N'afọ 1976, Omogbai nwetara nzere doctorate na agụmakwụkwọ nka na Mahadum New York. Ọ laghachiri Naịjirịa n'otu afọ ahụ wee sonye n'ọrụ gọọmentị Naịjirị dị ka onye nkuzi nka na onye nchịkwa. A kọrọ na ọ kwụsịrị ime ihe osise ya ka ọ bụrụ onye ọrụ gọọmentị na onye nchịkwa oge niile.

A maghị ebe ọtụtụ n'ime ọrụ ya dị taa, mana ihe osise ya Agony (1963) abụwo akụkụ nke ọtụtụ ihe ngosi, gụnyere:

* Neue Kunst in Afrika (New Art in Africa), Mainz, Germany, June 1980; Bayreuth, Germany, July-August 1980; Wörgl, Austria, September 1980
* *Mgbe agha gasịrị: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic,1945-1965*, Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 2016 to March 2017 
* *Niepodległe: Ụmụ nwanyị, Nnwere Onwe na Okwu Mba*, Muzeum, Museum of Modern Art na Warsaw, 2018-2019 
* N'ime abalị: Cabarets & Clubs in Modern Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2019-2020
* *Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence na Mbari Club* na Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, 2022 
* Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2024 

## Ndụ onwe onye
Omogbai lụrụ Prince Emmanuel Eberechukwu Onyeka na 1969. O mechara kwaga United States.

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