Senga Nengudi
Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2023
Nasher Sculpture Center
April 2023

Sprüth Magers congratulates Senga Nengudi on winning the Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2023. Since its inception in 2015, the Nasher Prize has been awarded to artists whose oeuvre has had an extraordinary impact on our understanding of sculpture. The award ceremony will take place in April, 2023.

Over more than five decades, Nengudi has developed a practice that encompasses poetic, enigmatic objects and installations as well as performances, films, and photographs exploring the interactions of performers with and amid her three-dimensional works. Despite a long and rich career over more than five decades, she has only come to wider attention more recently, and her achievements find powerful reverberations in contemporary art.

Senga Nengudi
Screening and Conversation
December 10–December 11, 2020
Los Angeles

On the occasion of Senga Nengudi’s exhibition at Sprüth Magers, the gallery organized a two-part online program featuring a film by Barbara McCullough and a conversation between Nengudi, McCullough and curator Naima J. Keith on the artists’ past collaborations, their approach to collaboration more broadly, and Nengudi’s exhibition. View a recording of the conversation here.

Senga Nengudi
August 18, 2020–January 13, 2021
Los Angeles

This exhibition brings together two large-scale projects—Bulemia (1988/2018) and Sandmining B (2020), a new sand installation—that each illustrate the artist’s attuned, improvisational use of everyday materials and refined approach to form and space. Though Nengudi has deep ties to Los Angeles, as an important member of the city’s 1970s avant-garde, this will be the first solo gallery presentation of her work in LA in over forty years.

Senga Nengudi
June 7–July 13, 2019
London

The work of Senga Nengudi has been at the forefront of sculptural, performative, and photographic practices for over forty years. Using simple materials in innovative, unexpected ways, Nengudi’s compositions evoke a rich array of references, from subtle allusions to the body, to feminist considerations of space and movement, to the confluence of different cultural and religious rituals. With equal parts rigor and grace, they encourage us to rethink our relationship to the people and world around us.

Senga Nengudi
April 28–September 8, 2018
Berlin

For over four decades, artist Senga Nengudi has been pushing at the boundaries between sculpture, photography, and performance. The exhibition features four recent sculptures from Nengudi’s celebrated R.S.V.P series, which the artist first began in the late 1970s in response to her changing pregnant body. Using nylon stockings, sand, and metal objects, Nengudi generates delicate, webbed and knotted forms that stretch across walls, from one wall to another, or from the wall to the floor. Though decidedly abstract, each sculpture assumes bodily stances and proportions.

POWER
Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Sonya Clark, Renee Cox, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Karon Davis, Minnie Evans, Nona Faustine, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ellen Gallagher, Leslie Hewitt, Clementine Hunter, Steffani Jemison, Jennie C. Jones, Simone Leigh, Julie Mehretu, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Sondra Perry, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Joyce J. Scott, Emmer Sewell, Ntozake Shange, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith, Renee Stout, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Rosie Lee Tompkins, Unknown, Kara Walker, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Carrie Mae Weems, Brenna Youngblood
Work By African American Women From The Nineteenth Century To Now
March 28–June 10, 2017
Los Angeles

Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, is proud to present POWER, an exhibition curated by Todd Levin that surveys the work of African American women artists from the nineteenth century to now. Titled after the 1970 gospel song by Sister Gertrude Morgan, the exhibition begins with artists born soon after the Civil War and continues to the present, weaving together fine and folk art traditions to explore how artists have engaged issues of race, gender, and class against our evolving cultural and artistic landscape. The 37 artists in POWER draw into focus their struggle to establish themselves as equal players on the uneven field of the American republic.