Senga Nengudi (*1943, Chicago) lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Selected solo exhibitions include Lenbachhaus, Munich (2019, traveled to Museo de Arte de São Paulo (2020)), Denver Art Museum (2020), Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2018), Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2017–18). Selected group exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, New York and Venice Biennale (both 2017), Whitney Museum, New York (2013), and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2012).
2014 |
Art Matters Grant, New York |
2013 |
Arts Advocacy Award, Arts Business Education Awards, Pikes Peak Art Council, Colorado Springs |
2011 |
Artist in Residence, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
2010 |
Lifetime Achievement Award, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, New York |
2009 |
Panelist, Black Women, But Are They Feminist?, College Art Association, Los Angeles |
2008 |
Panelist, Modern Art in L.A.: African-American Avant-Garde, 1965-1990, Getty Center, Los Angeles |
2006 |
Artist in Residence, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia |
2005 |
Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Philanthropy Advisors, New York |
2005 |
Biennial Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York |
2005 |
Finalist, Ordway Prize, Penny McCall Foundation, New York |
2005 |
Invitational Artist Residency, “Kamp Kippy” Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert Island |
2002 |
Website of the Week Awarded to www.mountainmovingday.org, Artwomen.org |
2001 |
Panelist, The Black Aesthetic: 1960-2001, University of California, Riverside |
2001 |
Guest Speaker, The State of Feminism in Visual Culture, Colorado University, Colorado Springs |
2000 |
Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore |
1997 |
Visiting Artist, School of Art & Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago |
1997 |
Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore |
1996 |
Guest Curator, Whisper! Stomp! Shout! A Salute to African American Performance Art, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs |
1994 |
Distinguished Service Award, Board of Regents, University of Colorado |
1991 |
Co-President, Performing Arts for Youth Organization, Colorado Springs |
1986 |
Co-Curator with Charles Abramson, 1+1=3, Gallery 1199, New York |
1974 |
Set Designer, Dead Center, Sounds in Motion Dance Co., New York |
1974 |
Grant (Sculpture), Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS), New York State Council on the Arts |
1965 |
Orchesis Dance Scholarship |
2012 |
re.act.feminism, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb; traveled to Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde |
2012 |
Walk Tall, Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; in collaboration with Maren Hassinger and Ulysses Jenkins |
2011 |
Video Studio Playback, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York |
2011 |
Clifford Owens – Anthology, Museum of Modern Art, New York; in collaboration with Truth and Sweep |
2010 |
Remembering Parker, This Long Century, Online Art Magazine |
2006 |
Side by Side, Nomadic Nights Series, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris; in collaboration with Maren Hassinger |
2002 |
Mountain Moving, Day-Ritual: Celebration Women’s History Month, www.mountainmovingday.org (ongoing) |
2001 |
Developed personas Propecia Leigh, Harriet Chin, and Lily Bea Moor for other media explorations (ongoing) |
1999 |
Walk a mile in my shoes |
1998 |
Mail Art and Long Distance Conceptual Exercises; in collaboration with Maren Hassing |
1995 |
Developed persona of Propecia Leigh for photography work (ongoing) |
1995 |
Lecture/Performance, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff |
1995 |
Making a Scene of Ourselves – The Black Arts: Nappy Ruminations on Life in America, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs |
1995 |
Singing the Circle: Four Women Creating Themselves (radio performance); in collaboration with Kim Campbell, Stacy Dyson, Felicia Rose Caton Garcia and Jane Hilberry; sponsored by Colorado College, Colorado Springs |
1989 |
Double Think Bulemia, Mouth to Mouth: Conversations on Being (radio performance) |
1988 |
A Series From A to Z, Mouth to Mouth: Conversations on Being (radio performance) |
1986 |
Nature’s Way, Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
1984 |
Four, Cotton Exchange, Los Angeles; in collaboration with Chrono, Maren Hassinge and Ulysses Jenkins |
1983 |
Chance Unfrozen, Other Visions Studio, Los Angeles; in collaboration with Cheryl Banks and Roberto Miranda |
1983 |
Spooks Who Sat By the Door, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA |
1982 |
Blind Dates, White Dog, New York; presented by: Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York; in collaboration with Blondell Cummings and Yasuno Tone |
1982 |
Flying, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles; in conjunction with the opening of Afro-American Abstractions, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles; in collaboration with Maren Hassinger, Ulysses Jenkins and Franklin Parker |
1982 |
Men, Watts Towers Art Center, Watts |
1981 |
Air Propo, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York; in collaboration with Cheryl Banksand Butch Morris |
1980 |
C.C. Rider, Central Park, New York; in collaboration with Charles Abramson |
1980 |
Alive Performance, California State University, Los Angeles; in collaboration with Maren Hassinger and Franklin Parker |
1980 |
Bird, Jewish Home for the Aged, Reseda |
1980 |
Get Up, Paper Mill, Los Angeles; in collaboration with Houston Conwill, Maren Hassinger and Franklin Parker |
1978 |
Ceremony for Freeway Fets, L.A. Freeway Underpass, Los Angeles; presented by Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles; in collaboration with David Hammons and Maren Hassinger |
1977 |
Costume Study for Mesh Mirage, Studio Performance, Los Angeles |
1977 |
Répondez S’il-vous-plaît, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York |
1977 |
Performance Piece - Nylon Mesh and Maren Hassinger, Woods Gallery, Los Angeles |