Laylah Ali

**Laylah Ali** (amụrụ n'afọ 1968) bụ onye na-ese ihe nkiri nke oge a maara maka ihe osise nke a na-egosipụta mmekọrịta agbụrụ na-edoghị anya na usoro eserese eserese.

## Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
N'oge ọ bụ nwata, Ali bu n'obi ịbụ onye ọka iwu ma ọ bụ dọkịta.

Ali nwetara B.A. (English and Studio Art) na Williams College, Williamstown, MA na 1991. O sonyere na Whitney Independent Study Program na Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City na 1992, wee mechaa ebe obibi na Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegen, ME na 1993. Ali nwetara M.F.A. ya na 1994 na Mahadum Washington na St. Louis, MO. Ọ bi ma na-arụ ọrụ na Williamstown, Massachusetts, ma bụrụkwa prọfesọ ugbu a na Williams College.

## Ọrụ
N'ọrụ Ali mbụ, ọ ga-ese ma ọ bụ see ìhè ímé ihe ike. O lekwasịrị anya n'omume karịa ime ìhè ike n'onwe ya. N'ọrụ ya ugbu a, ọ naghị elekwasị anya n'omume ahụ; ọ na-elebara ìhè na-eme tụpụ na mgbe ọ gasịrị anya.

Ọrụ ndị ahụ bụ obere ìhè osise gouache na ihe osise na akwụkwọ. A maara yá ka ọ na-akwadebe ọtụtụ ọnwa, na-eme atụmatụ ihe ọ bụla kà ọ ghara inwe ohere màkà mmejọ. Ọrụ Ali dabeere ná ahụmịhe ndụ. Ọ bụ ezie na mmadụ nwere ike ọ gaghị enwe ike ikwu, ọ na-ekwu na ọrụ ya niile nwere ihe ọ pụtara nakwa ná ihe dị n'uche ya karịrị aka ya na akwụkwọ. Banyere ọdịdị arụmọrụ nkè ọrụ ya, Ali na-ekwu, "Ihe osise ahụ nwere ike ịdị ka usoro ma ọ bụ setịpụrụ, ọnụ ọgụgụ dị ka ndị na-eme ihe nkiri na egwuregwu. Echere m na ha dịka ndị mmadụ na ndị mmadụ. "

### Usoro Greenheads
Isiokwu nke ihe osise gouache a ma ama nke Ali bụ ihe odide *Greenheads* e mere iji belata ma ọ bụ wepụ ọdịiche dị iche iche nke okike, ogo, afọ, na n'ụzọ ụfọdụ agbụrụ.  Ali mepụtara ihe karịrị 80 n'ime ihe osise ndị a n'agbata afọ 1996 na 2005. Ali wepụtara ihe oyiyi na isiokwu sitere na akwụkwọ akụkọ, dị ka ihe oyiyi nke ihe ịrịba ama ngagharị iwe ma ọ bụ ndị isi ụwa na-amakụ, mànà ọ gbanwere akụkọ iji mepụta ihe dị ányá na ihe ọhụrụ. Ali mepụtara ihe odide na ihe oyiyi ka ha bụrụ ndị a kapịrị ọnụ ma bụrụ ndị na-edoghị anya. Ha nwèrè ìhè ọ pụtara site n'aka Ali n'onwe ya mànà onye na-ekiri ya na-eweta ihe odide nkè ha iji kọwaa onyinyo ahụ. Ali mèrè ihe odide ka ha yie mmadụ ma ọ bụghị mmadụ ka e wéé wepụ ha n'ụwa anyị na mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya. Ha nwèrè ihe ọ pụtara na mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya ma ha dị n'èzí ụwa anyị.

### Ihe na-adịghị mma
Kemgbe afọ 2015, Ali anọwo na-arụ ọrụ n'usoro ihe osise ọ na-akpọ Acephalous, na-egosi ọnụ ọgụgụ ọ na-akọwa dị ka onye maara okike, nwere ike inwe mmekọahụ ma ọ bụ mmekọahụ, ụfọdụ n'ime ha nwere àgwà agbụrụ na ụfọdụ n'etiti ha enweghị isi. "Ha nọ na njem na-adịghị agwụ agwụ, nke kpebisiri ike, njem nwere ọtụtụ akụkụ", ka ọ na-ekwu. "Ọ nwere akụkụ nke ịkwaga n'ike. "

### Nkwekọrịta
Laylah Ali esorowo onye na-agba egwú / onye na-eme ihe nkiri Dean Moss na The Kitchen na 2005 na Figures on a Field na 2014 na *johnbrown*. N'afọ 2002, Museum of Modern Art, New York, nyere Ali ọrụ ịmepụta akwụkwọ akụkọ na-enweghị okwu. N'afọ 2020 n'oge ọrịa a, a na-atụ anya na Ali ga-arụcha ọrụ ya na Tamarind Press na New Mexico. Usoro nchekwa nke COVID-19 chọrọ ka ndị nta akụkọ na ndị na-ese ihe gbanwee mmekọrịta ọrụ ha gaa na nke mebere emepe. Kama ịrụ ọrụ n'onwe ha, ha rụrụ ọrụ iji jiri ozi ahụ zipụ ọrụ na-aga n'ihu. 

## Nchịkọta
A na-etinye ọrụ Alias na nchịkọta na-adịgide adịgide nke ọtụtụ ụlọ ọrụ ọha na eze, gụnyere Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago na Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, n'etiti ọtụtụ ndị ọzọ.

## Ihe ngosi

### Ihe ngosi onwe onye na nke otu
Laylah Ali gosipụtara na Venice Biennial (2003) na Whitney Biennial (2007) Ihe ngosi ndị ọzọ dị ka ndị a:

* 2017: Laylah Ali: Ihe osise na Ihe osise, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, Nọvemba 10, 2017 Disemba 22, 2017
* 2015-2016: Mahadum nke Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ọktoba 17, 2015 na Jenụwarị 31, 2016
* 2015-2016: ASSISTED, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, September 12, 2015 na Jenụwarị 16, 2016
* 2015: Blanton Museum of Art, Mahadum Texas na Austin, Austin, Texas, Febụwarị 17 na Mee 15, 2016
* 2015: *Bịa dị ka ị bụ*: Art nke afọ 1990, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, February 8 May 17
* 2015: Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, June 12 September 20
* 2015: The Acephalous Series, PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
* 2014: *Akụkọ onwe onye*, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, July 5 May 3, 2014 Up Every Evening, Season gallery, Seattle, Вашингтон, oge opupu ihe ubi
* 2013: Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art na Mahadum Cornell, NY.
* 2013: Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series. Weisman Art Museum na Mahadum Minnesota;
* 2013: The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum na Harlem, New York, NY (katalog)
* 2013: Akụkọ ihe mere eme na-edoghị anya: Ihe osise ahọpụtara site na Portfolios nke Exit Art, Art, Design, na Architecture Museum, Mahadum Santa Barbara, CA
* 2013: *Laylah Ali* & Gerald Cyrus, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Gallery, Lancaster, PA Direct Democracy, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (katalog)
* 2013: Painting Between the Lines, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (katalog)
* 2013: *Mkpughe*: Nyocha Ọchịchị Onye kwuo uche ya, Broad Art Museum, Mahadum Michigan State, East Lansing, MI
* 2012: *Site* ugbu a gaa n'ihu, na Forever Free, Haggerty Museum of Art, Mahadum Marquette, Milwaukee, WI
* 2012: N'okpuru mmetụta: The Comics, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
* 2012: The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (katalog)
* 2011: The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (katalog)
* 2011: Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (katalog)
* 2011: Akụkọ ndị pụrụ iche: Laylah Ali na Abigail Lazkoz, Sala Parpallo, Valencia, Spain (katalog)
* 2011: Vivid: Nchịkọta Ụmụ nwanyị na-ese ihe, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, New York, NY
* 2010: Ọrụ na akwụkwọ site na nchịkọta MCA. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
* 2010: *Nchịkọta*: Reflections on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum na Harlem, New York, NY
* 2009: Off the Beaten Path: Ime ihe ike, ụmụ nwanyị na nka, Ọrụ nka maka mgbanwe na Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway (2009); Ụlọ ngosi nka nke Mahadum, Mahadum California, San Diego, CA (2009-2010); Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico (2010); Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico (2010)); Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2010); Global Health Odyssey Museum, Centers for Disease and Prevention Cultural, Atlanta, GA (2011) Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions from Walker Art Center, Fig Careing Park, MA Center, Massachusetts Center, Makers, Mak Mak Mak Makers, Mahad, Mak Mak, Mak Makers: Mak Mak Mak, Mahad Min Min Min Min, Mak Maker, Mak Maktern, Mak Mak: Mak Mak, Nak, Mak Mak
* 2008: Laylah Ali: Ihe edeturu / Ihe osise / Nsogbu Na-enweghị Isi, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum: August 30, 2008 - January 4, 2009
* 2008: Beyond Drawing: Constructed Realities, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington gara Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore (2009); Political Circus, Florida Atlantic University, Ritter Art Gallery, Boca Raton; On the Margins, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (katalog); Disguised, Newwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; Out of Shape, The Frances Lehman Loeb, The York College Poughassar (catalogue)
* 2008: Taking Possession, Mahadum nke Arkansas na Little Rock Perverted site na Theater, Apex Art, New York, NY; Pandora's Box, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (katalog)
* 2008: U-turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (katalog)
* 2008: Ihe odide / Ozi: Akwụkwọ site n'aka ndị na-ese ihe, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
* 2007: *isusu ọnụ na ndị agha ndị ọzọ*. Institute of International Visual Arts, London;
* 2006: Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London gara Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England (katalog) Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery, London, England (catalog)
* 2006: Ndị ibe ha: Ndị na-ese ihe n'oge a na mmetụta ha, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (katalọ) Running Around the Pool, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee. FL (katalog) XXS, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel American Matrix, Harn Museum of Art, Mahadum Florida, Gainesville, FL Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (katalogue) Inwe Anya Ọhụrụ, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
* 2005: The Body. The Ruin, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Mahadum Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (katalog) Cut, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA Vivi-Section: Dibujo Contemporaneo, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
* 2004: Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (katalọgụ) Ihe akaebe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (katalógụgụ) Iwu 10, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, Germany)
* 2004: Laylah Ali: Ụdị. Ebe Ngosi Ihe Ochie nke Oge A St. Louis;
* 2003: Crosscurrents na Century End: Nhọrọ sitere na Neuberger Berman Art Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Xia gara Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Tampa Museum of Art.
* 2003: *Fault Lines*: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (katalog)
* 2003: m & more, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (katalog)
* 2003: *Splat Boom Pow*! *Mmetụta nke ihe osise na* nka nke oge a, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Houston, TXiao gara Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (katalog)
* 2002: Ọrụ 75: Laylah Ali. Museum of Modern Art, New York;
* 2002: *Nkwurịta* okwu maka Ọgbọ Ọhụrụ, Mahadum Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania gara Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Mahadum North Texas Gallery, Denton; Mahaduma Western Washington, Bellingham (katalog) Fantasyland, DāAmelio Terras, New York, NY Onye Mbụ Otu, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Painting na Boston, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, MA Lincoln
* 2001: *Laylah Ali*. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston;
* 2001: Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface, Frame, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (katalog)
* 2001: FRESH: The *Altoids* Curiously Strong Collection 1998-2000, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Guarene Arte 2001, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
* 2001: A Work in Progress: Nhọrọ sitere na New Museum Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
* 2000: Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Mahadum nke North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
* 1999: Bizarro World! The Parallel Universes of Comics and Fine Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL Collectors Collect Contemporary, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 1999 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordov Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (katalog)
* 1999: *Enweghị Ebe Kama Ebe Ebe A*, 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, Mahadum Connecticut, Storrs, CT

## Onyinye
E nyela Ali ọtụtụ onyinye, ebe obibi na onyinye, gụnyere Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant na 2008, Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency na 2018, na United States Artists Residency.

## Ebenside

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