Zoé Whitley

**Zoé Whitley** (amụrụ 30 Disemba 1979) bụ onye ọkọ akụkọ ihe mere eme na nka America bụ onye bụbu onye isi ụlọ ọrụ Chisenhale Gallery kemgbe 2020. Dabere na London, ọ nọrọla n'ọkwa nlekọta na Victoria na Albert Museum, ụlọ ngosi ihe ngosi Tate, na ụlọ ọrụ Hayward . Na veranda Tate, Whitley kwadoro ihe ngosi 2017 *[[Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power]]*, nke *ARTnews* kọwara dị ka otu n'ime ihe ngosi nka kachasị mkpa nke 2010. N'oge na-adịghị ka ahọpụtara ya ịhazi ụlọ ezumike Britain na 2019 Venice Biennale .

## Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Zoé Whitley na Washington, DC, na 30 Disemba 1979.  Ezinụlọ ya kwagara Los Angeles, California, mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na ụma. N'ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ gụrụ klaasị na akụkọ ihe mere eme nka na nka studio .   O chetala njem gaa Getty Villa n'oge ahụ n'ihi na ndị mụrụ ya enweghị ike iziga ya njem ụlọ akwụkwọ na Europe. 

Whitley gara Swarthmore College na Pennsylvania, ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ akụkọ ihe mere eme na French.  Maka ọrụ mbụ ya na nka nke oge a, Whitley kọrọ na-adabere na edemede ya na echiche nke onye nche nchebe ojii na-arụ ọrụ na Philadelphia Museum of Art nyere ya banyere *Nigredo* (1984), ihe osise nke Anselm Kiefer : "Ihe ọ bụla mechiri na edemede m., nke prọfesọ akụkọ ihe mere eme m kwuru na ọ magburu onwe ya, sitere n'ihe o nwere ike ịkọrọ m." 

Mgbe ọ na-aga Swarthmore, na 1999, Whitley dechara ọzụzụ na ngalaba uwe na akwa nke Los Angeles County Museum of Art .  N'ebe ahụ, onye isi ngalaba Sharon Takeda na onye ọrụ ibe ya, Kaye Spilker, tụrụ aro ka Whitley bụrụ onye nlekọta.  Na ndụmọdụ ha, Whitley gụrụ akwụkwọ na Royal College of Art na London ka ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Swarthmore na 2001, wee nweta akara ugo mmụta nna ukwu na akụkọ ihe mere eme .   Nkà mmụta nna ya ukwu nyochara ihe nnọchianya ojii na magazin *Vogue* . O nwetara PhD na Mahadum Central Lancashire na onye omenkà Britain na onye nlekọta Lubaina Himid . 

## Ọrụ
Whitley malitere ọrụ ya na Victoria na Albert Museum na London na 2003. Ruo afọ abụọ, Whitley rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye inyeaka curator na ngalaba mbipụta ihe ngosi nka. Ọ ghọrọ onye nlekọta na 2005.  Na 2007, ọ haziri *Eziokwu na-adịghị mma*, ihe ngosi nke na-echeta afọ abụọ nke mkpochapụ nke ahia ohu nke Britain.  Ihe ngosi ahụ tụlere akara ahịa ohu na nka na nhazi nke oge a.  N'afọ 2013, ọ kwụsịrị n'ọkwa ya ịmalite PhD na Mahadum Central Lancashire. Dị ka onye nlekọta onwe ya, ọ kwadoro ihe ngosi Afrofuturism -lekwasịrị anya ihe ngosi *The Shadows Were Shape* na Studio Museum na Harlem . 

### Afọ, 2013-2019
Na 2013, Whitley sonyeere ụlọ ngosi ihe nkiri Tate . N'agbata 2013 na 2015, o nwere ọnọdụ abụọ curatorial na Tate Britain na Tate Modern dị ka onye na-ahụ maka nkà mba ụwa na onye na-ahụ maka nkà nke Britain nke oge a, n'otu n'otu. Mgbe April 2017 gasịrị, ọrụ ya na-elekwasị anya ghọrọ nkà mba ụwa na nchịkọta nke Tate Modern.  Na Mark Godfrey, ọ kwadoro ihe ngosi 2017 *[[Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power]]*, bụ nke nyochara nzaghachi nke ihe karịrị iri isii na-ese ihe na America na Civil Rights Movement na ndị na-esote Black Power movement .    Ihe ngosi ahụ, dị ka Whitley si kwuo, kwusiri ike na "nkà na ndị na-ese ihe, karịa akụkọ ihe mere eme nke nkà na ụzụ," na-agụnye ọrụ Frank Bowling, Betye Saar, na Barkley L. Hendricks .  *ARTnews* kọwara *mkpụrụ obi nke mba* dị ka otu n'ime ihe ngosi nka kacha mkpa nke afọ 2010.  Otu Association of Art Museum Curators nyere Whitley otu n'ime ihe nrite 2020 Curatorial maka Ọkachamma maka ihe ngosi ahụ. 

### Ụlọ ihe nkiri Hayward, 2019–2020
Na 2019, Whitley ghọrọ onye isi na-ahụ maka ụlọ ọrụ Hayward .  Ihe ngosi mbụ ya na nke ikpeazụ na Hayward bụ *Reverb: Sound into Art*, ihe ngosi nke gosipụtara nkà ụda nke Christine Sun Kim, Kahlil Joseph, na Oliver Beer . 

Ọzọkwa na 2019, Whitley bụ onye na-ahụ maka pavilion Britain na 58th Venice Biennale, bụ nke gosipụtara ihe ngosi nke nrụnye ọkpụkpụ, eserese, na mbipụta nke Cathy Wilkes . Ọ ghọrọ onye nlekọta mbụ n'Afrika America nke hazie pavilion mba na Venice Biennale .  

### Ụlọ ihe nkiri nke Chisenhale, 2020– dị ugbu a
N'afọ 2020, a họpụtara Whitley ka ọ bụrụ onye ntụzi ihe ngosi nke Chisenhale Gallery .  Mụ na Nancy Ireson, Whitley chịkọtara *Ịlaịja ' America*, nlegharị anya nke ọrụ onye America na-ese osisi Elijah Pierce gosipụtara na Barnes Foundation na Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Mgbe afọ ahụ gasịrị, ọ na-ahụ maka *ihe onwunwe*, akụkụ nke mebere " Frieze Viewing Room" nke na-elekwasị anya na ọnọdụ ime mmụọ na nka nke oge a.   Na 2021, a họpụtara ya na Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, kọmitii na-ahụ maka iche iche na ihe ncheta ọha na eze London na okporo ụzọ ya na aha ụlọ ya. 

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