Biography
1944 | Born in Anyako, Ghana | |
1964 | Sculpture major, Kwame Nkrumah University, Kumasi, Ghana | |
1968 | Received Honorable Mention in First Ghana National Art Competition | |
1969 | Awarded the faculty’s Best Student of the year at Nkrumah University Began to teach at Winneba Special Training College, Ghana |
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1975 | Moved to Nigeria to teach sculpture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka | |
1976 | First solo gallery exhibition at Asele Art Gallery, Nsukka, Nigeria | |
1985 | Spent 2 months as a Visiting Artist in Cornwall College, United Kingdom | |
1990 | Received an Honorable Mention at the 44th Venice Biennale, Italy | |
1995 | First solo exhibition at October Gallery, London Included in the 8th Osaka Sculpture as well as An Inside Story, which opened at the Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo and traveled to five additional Japanese museums, concluding at the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, in 1996 |
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1998 | Bronze Prize at the 9th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Japan | |
2001 | Man’s Cloth displayed at the British Museum, which acquires the piece | |
2003 | First major international solo museum exhibition, Gawu, traveled through Europe and the United States to ten venues, through 2008 | |
2004 | Sasa displayed as part of the Africa Remix exhibition in the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. The exhibition toured internationally through 2007. Included in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea |
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2007 | Two monumental works shown at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy, and then acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Nelson Atkins | |
2008 | First solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York | |
2010 | A retrospective exhibition, A Fateful Journey, tours Japan through 2011 to the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Tsuruoka Art Forum and The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama | |
2012 | Gravity and Grace, Monumental Works, a solo exhibition organized by the Akron Art Museum, tours the United States. Included in both the Paris Triennale and the Sydney Biennale |
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2015 | El Anatsui, Five Decades, opens at The School, Kinderhook New York, and travels to Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia. That year Anatsui is also included in The Contemporary 2 at the 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa. Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 56th Venice Biennale, Italy |
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2016 | Included in the Marrakech Biennale, Morocco | |
2017 | A new body of print works, Benchmarks debuts at October Gallery in London |