Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Canton (NY). Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Saint Lawrence University.
InMidmomenT: lines.spaces.boundaries.: Works by ADA UDECHUKWU.
March 20-June 4, 2000.
Solo exhibition of recent works on paper, including drawings, artist's books, and a selection of poetry.

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

LAGOS (Nigeria). Goethe Institut.
Celebrating Africa.
1993.
Group exhibition of textiles and jewelry. Included: Ada Udechukwu.

OTTENBERG, SIMON, ed.
Nigerian Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; in association with University of Washington Press, 2002.
xvii, 308 pp., color and b&w illus. The proceedings of a two-day symposium at the National Museum of African Art held in October 1997 in conjunction with the exhibition The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group. Simon Ottenberg, curator of the exhibition, organized the symposium and invited as speakers all of the seven artists plus art historians, critics, and other artists. The seven Nsukka artists are Uche Okeke, Obiora Udechukwu, El Anatsui, Tayo Adenaike, Chike Aniakor, Ada Udechukwu, and Olu Oguibe.

PORTLAND (ME). University of New England Art Gallery.
Out of Bounds: Women Artists from Africa.
July 20-September 19, 2004.
Group exhibition of 20 artists from Cameroun, Cote d'Ivoire, Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe, among others. Exhibition sponsored by MBARI Institute for Contemporary African Art. Included: Marthe Nso Abomo, Florence Adeyemi, Rackie Diankha, Angele Etoundi Essamba, Elsa Gebreyesus, Mary Kaundo, Sophia Kifle, Nomsa Kumalo, Monique Le Houeller, Peju Layiwola, Lilian Nabulime, Nike Davies Okundaye (a.k.a Nike Olaniyi Davies), Reinata Sadimba Passema, Yolanda Prinsloo, Sira Sissoko, Ada Udechukwu, Eunice Wadu,

WASHINGTON (DC). National Museum of African Art.
New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group.
October 22, 1997-April 26, 1998.
302 pp. exhib. cat., illus., biogs. Text by Simon Ottenberg. 64 paintings, drawings, prints, wood sculptures and mixed-media works. Images are drawn from traditional Igbo life and culture, including tales, myths, spiritual figures, minstrels, dances, masquerades, and rituals and also engage in a dialogue about current social, political, and economic conditions in Nigeria. Artists included: Tayo Adenaike, El Anatsui, Chike Aniakor, Uche Okeke, Olu Oguibe, Ada Udechukwu, Obiora Udechukwu. 4to (11.2 x 9.3 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.

WASHINGTON (DC). National Museum of African Art.
The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, Nigeria.
October 22, 1997-April 26, 1998.
Group exhibition. Curated by Simon Ottenberg. Seven artists included: Tayo Adenaike, El Anatsui, Chike C. Aniakor, Olu Oguibe, Uche Okeke, Ada Udechukwu, and Obiora Udechukwu.