MY RESUME
Born 1976 Imo, Nigeria
MFA, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
BA, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Solo Exhibition
2008 Water and Me; Bottled Life: Art in Unconventional Space; Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2006 Environ-Scope: Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
Selected Group Exhibitions
MFA, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
BA, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Solo Exhibition
2008 Water and Me; Bottled Life: Art in Unconventional Space; Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2006 Environ-Scope: Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
- 1st International Festival of Contemporary Art(FIAC of Algiers), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Algiers.
- RETHINK: THE IMPLICIT, Contemporary Art and Climate Change: Den Frie Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
- All Barnsley Diversity Festival, South Yorkshire, UK
- Stichting Art in Redlight, Amsterdam
- TASTE 2009: Root Division, San Fransisco, USA
- CODE SHARE, 10 Biennales, 20 Artists, 5 Continents, International Exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2008
- Echo Wanted: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris.
- Experimental Frontiers: society through the eyes of South African and Nigerian artists; Cape Town, South Africa
- WATER: Delight and Misery; Ifa Gallery, Stuttgart, Ifa Gallery Berlin.
- Art, Migration, and Identity: International Exhibition for the International Festival of the Art in Arnhem - Netherlands.
2007
• Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change - Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates.
• Trans-Cape Contemporary African Art Exhibition, Cape town, South Africa
• M.F.A, Final ( Studio and thesis) Exhibition, WATER: Medium, Process and Idea For Sculpture; Ana Gallery, University of Nigeria,Nsukka
2006
• ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) Festival, Santa Domingo, Antilles.
• DAK’ART, 7th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, IFAN Musuem, Dakar, Senegal.
• M.F.A. (first) Exhibition, Ana Gallery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
• 3rd International Conference - Exhibition on Modern Art in Nigeria, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
2005
• 5th Biennial Exhibition of Pan African Circle of Artists, National Museum, Enugu.
• 45th Founders Day Anniversary Exhibition, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
2001
- B.A. (studio and thesis) Exhibition; Children’s Play Architecture - Sandcastle
COMMISSION
2001
- University of Nigeria, New Main Gate
AFFILIATION (S)
- Member - College Arts Association, USA
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2008
• International Festival of the Arts in Arnhem, Netherlands-Residency at Thamgidi Studios
• Commonwealth Arts and Craft Awards Residency, Trinidad and Tobago.
• Djerassi Artists Residency Program, California, USA.
• UNESCO Aschberg Bursaries for Artists’ Residency, Centro Colombo Americano, Colombia.
POSITION(S)
2009
- Member of the Jury - Commonwealth Connections International Residency Awards, 2009
Awards / Residencies
. International Festival of the Arts in Arnhem-Netherlands
· Commonwealth Arts and Craft Awards, Residency, Trinidad and Tobago 2007 /2008
. The LEF Foundation, Lava Thomas and Peter Danzig Fellowship Award, Djerassy Residency Program, 2007
· Djerassi Artists Residency Program, California USA, Dakar Prize. 2007
· UNESCO Aschberg Bursaries for Artists, Residency ,Centro Colombo Americano, Colombia – 2007
· Best Graduating Student Prize, Dept. of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka-2001
· Tajudeen, Sowole, “Eke’s Environ – Scope …., Beauties from the dumpsite”, The Guardian Life, (December 2006): Vol. 2, No. 11.
· Ozolua, Uhakheme, “Environ – Scope: Using Art to save Environment”, Daily Independent, (December 2006)
· Chuka, Nnabuife, “Environ – Scope … Bright Eke sets forth on Conceptual path”, The Guardian, (November 2006), 89.
· Ozioma, Onuzulike, “Presenting the ‘Unpresentable’: Bright Eke’s Installation Art” Catalogue, (November 2006)
· Commonwealth Arts and Craft Awards, Residency, Trinidad and Tobago 2007 /2008
. The LEF Foundation, Lava Thomas and Peter Danzig Fellowship Award, Djerassy Residency Program, 2007
· Djerassi Artists Residency Program, California USA, Dakar Prize. 2007
· UNESCO Aschberg Bursaries for Artists, Residency ,Centro Colombo Americano, Colombia – 2007
· Best Graduating Student Prize, Dept. of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka-2001
CONFERENCES / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2010
- Projected - Art and Environment; Skidmore College, New York
- Projected - Nukae, The Art of El Anatsui; Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
2009
- Ideas of Water: A workshop for RETHINK; Art and Climate Change, Copenhagen
- Water is Power: African Art History; College Art Association, CAA Conference, Los Angeles,USA.
- Burnett Child Development Center, San Fransisco Unified School District In Conjunction with ArtSeed, San Fransisco, USA
- Sacred Heart High School, Palo Alto, USA
2008
• Slide talk, Alice Yard-Experimental Space, Trinidad and Tobago
2007
- Slide talk, Palo Alto Art Center, California, USA.
Selected Bibliography· Sola, Balogun, “Ugochukwu Eke: Mirroring Society on Goethe Stage”, Daily Sun, (November 2006): 32
· Tajudeen, Sowole, “Eke’s Environ – Scope …., Beauties from the dumpsite”, The Guardian Life, (December 2006): Vol. 2, No. 11.
· Ozolua, Uhakheme, “Environ – Scope: Using Art to save Environment”, Daily Independent, (December 2006)
· Chuka, Nnabuife, “Environ – Scope … Bright Eke sets forth on Conceptual path”, The Guardian, (November 2006), 89.
· Ozioma, Onuzulike, “Presenting the ‘Unpresentable’: Bright Eke’s Installation Art” Catalogue, (November 2006)
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