SENGA NENGUDI

Born in Chicago in 1943, Nengudi lives and works in Colorado Springs. While earning degrees in art and dance from California State University, Los Angeles (BA, 1966; MA, 1971), she worked at the energised spaces of the Watts Towers Arts Center and the Pasadena Art Museum and spent a formative year at Waseda University, Tokyo. In the 1970s, alongside David Hammons, she belonged to the loosely organised collective Studio Z. Her earliest exhibitions were held at the legendary gallery Just Above Midtown (JAM) in New York. Recently, the survey Senga Nengudi: Topologies was organised by Lenbachhaus, Munich (2019) and traveled to Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2020), Denver Art Museum (2020), and Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021). Her work has been the subject of many solo exhibitions at museums around the world, and has featured in such significant group exhibitions as Soul of a Nation (2017); We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–1985 (2017); Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 (2011); and WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007). Nengudi’s work resides in such collections as the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hammer Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Courtesy Lévy Gorvy Dayan