Marcia Kure
	Images	Biography
	Biography	Born Kano, Nigeria.
		1987-94 University of Nigeria, Nsukka (B.A. Painting, 1994.)
	Public Collections
	Links	SOLO EXHIBITIONS
		2011 "Fashionable Hybrids" BravinLee programs, New York
	Current/ Upcoming	"Dressed Up", Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
		2007 "Vogue Series", BravinLee programs, New York.
	Press
		2006 "Wonderland Series II", Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco.
		2004 "WONDERLAND", Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco
		2003 Gallery Art Korner, The Hague, The Netherlands.
		2000 "Cloth as Identity", Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria.
		1998 "Die Frau. Der Fisch. Der Hase: Aquarelle und Gemälde". AK Kaya der VHS/Ausstellungsraum Weihersbach/Herzogenaurach/Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany.
		1997 "SONGS FOR MOTHER and other works", The Teaching Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa.
	Contact: marcia@marciakure.com
		1996 "BLICK ZURÜCK - NACH VORN", Art Arc Galerie, Bayreuth, Germany.
		1994 "MARCIAKURE: Paintings and Drawings". Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
		TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
		2005 "Homeland.Wonderland: Drawings by Chika Okeke-Agulu and Marcia Kure", The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence, University, Canton, NY, USA.
		2004 "Female Artists from the African Diaspora" (with Otobong Nkanga and Senam Okudzeto), Galerie Peter Herrmann, Berlin, Germany.
		2001 "Recent Paintings" (with Chika Okeke), The Living Room Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA.
		1999 "Seeds and Proverbs" (with Chika Okeke), Kubatana Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA.
		1995 "Fragments and Songs" (with Chika Okeke), Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria.
		GROUP EXHIBITIONS
		2010 "Esopus 14: Projects", Esopus, New York.
		2009 "Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities", Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
		2006 "2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art", Seville. Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach. "DRAW•ING (dro'ing) n.", BravinLee Programs, New York.
		2005 "7th Sharjah International Biennale", Sharjah, U.A.E. "Heal the World", Ibis Hotel, Dubai, U.A.E. "Textile Catalysts: SHIBORI Shaping the 21st Century", Tama At University Museum, Tokyo. "Propeller, Exhibition of 7 promising artists of African descent", Steve Turner Gallery, Beverly Hills. "Aqua Art Miami", Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach. "Gallery Art Korner", The Hague, The Netherlands. "The Future is on the Table", A project organized by Gwyléne Gallimard and Jean Marie Mauclet of Fast and French, Charleston.
		2004 "My Journey Yours", Youth Art Connection, Atlanta. "FILES PROJECT", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Madrid. "The Beaded Prayer Project", Montreal Arts Interculturels (MAI), Montreal, Canada.
		2003 "The Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Barbican Art Galleries, London; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.
		2002 "Art for Aid", Fulton County Government Atrium, Atlanta. "Painted Doors", 14th Annual Decatur Arts Festival, The Gazebo, Decatur City Center.
		2001 "Colors of Africa: Contemporary Perspectives", The Art Gallery, University of New England, Portland.
		2000 "Women to Women: Weaving Cultures, Shaping History", Indiana State University Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN. (traveling) (with Sokari Douglas Camp, Ndidi Dike, and Iyabo Abiola). Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore.
		1999 "Synthesis", British Council Hall, Kaduna, Nigeria.
		2001 "Five Artists Exhibit Contemporary Nigerian Art", Abraka Turf Club, Abraka, Nigeria. "Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika", Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria. "New Currents: Avante garde Nigerian Art", Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria. "Young Masters", Signature Art Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.
		"CROSS / ING: Time. Space. Movement". USF Contemporary Art Museum/ Museum of African American Art, Tampa; Track 16 Art Gallery, Santa Monica, USA; The Schmidt Center Gallery/Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton; City Gallery East, Atlanta.
		1996 "Galerie Lindern", Lindern, Germany. OSHOGBO- NSUKKA, Rathaus der Stadt Gersthofen, Gersthofen, Germany. "Bestart '96", National Gallery of Art, Lagos, Nigeria.
		1995 "IMPACT", Aba Town Hall, Aba, Nigeria. "ULI ART: Master Works, Recent Works", Skoto Gallery, New York, USA. "Contemporary Nigerian Art", WIPO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. "A WOMAN'S VIEW: Equality, Development and Peace", The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
		1994 "Bestart '94", Goethe Institut, Lagos.
		1992 "Works from the Workshop at Nsukka (Prints) and Auchi (Paintings)", Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria.
		1991 "Grafik aus Nigeria", Atrium Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
		1990 "Prints from Nsukka", Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria.
		STUDIO RESIDENCIES
		1999 Atlanta, USA (Artists in Residence International Inc.). October 15-December 22.
		1998 Bayreuth, Germany (Iwalewa Haus/Art Arc/ Kaya der Volkshochschule Herzogenaurach). February 16-May 15.
		1997 Tampa, USA (Contemporary Art Museum/ Art Department, University of South Florida). August 27-December 30.
		1997 Bayreuth, Germany (Kulturkreis Gersthofen/ Art Arc). April 3-May 5.
		WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/LECTURES/PANELS
		2010 Ballarmine Forum, Imagining Equality, Women's Art and Activism, Lifting Oppression as We Climb: Black Women Artists and Activism, Loyola Marymount University (October 24-30, 2010)
		2009: Lecture and Panel Discussion, Smithsonian Institution Forum on Material Culture, 84th Quarterly Meeting, "Intersections:Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program", Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (17th March 2009)
		2008 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Lecture, National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution,Washington DC. (June 12th)
		2006 Vail Visiting Artist Lecture, Denison University, Granville, OH (Apr. 20-21).
		2005 Artist Lecture, Griffiths 123, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York (October 6).
		2004 Panelist, "My Journey Yours": Communitybased Art and the Culture of a Global World? Facilitated by Tumelo Mosaka (Art Curator, Brooklyn Museum, NY) Atlanta. Fiber Studio Workshop (with Yoshiko Wada), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME (Aug. 22 - Sept. 3). The Head's Seminar, St. Mark's School, Southborough, MA(Feb. 20).
		2003 Vail Visiting Artist Lecture, Denison University, Granville, OH (Feb. 6-7).
		2002 Member of the Employment Panel for the Art-at-Work Summer Program. Art-at-Work is a program designed for at risk teens, Ages 14 –16, A program of the Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta (April 13th & 20th). Member of the Field Trip Panel for the School Arts Program (SAP) Artists-in-the-Schools Program, Fulton County Arts. Council, Atlanta (May 19th).Participating Artist, Family History Artbook Project (fall) organized byThe Contemporary Art Center, for students from Bethune Elementary School, Atlanta (Oct. 12 – Nov. 16). Participating Artist, Family History Artbook Project (fall) organized by The Contemporary Art Center, for students from Bethune Elementary School, C. W. Hill Elementary School, Atlanta (Oct. 6 – Nov. 19).
		Artist Lecture, Art and Art History Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City (October 22). Artist Lecture and Presentation to the African Art Class, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, (February 26).
		2000 Conducted Drawing Workshop for students, Spellman College, Atlanta Artist Lecture, Third Sunday, organized by Artists in Residence International and Raid Road Earth, Atlanta (November 21). Lecture on Drawing for students, Atlanta International School, Atlanta (November 17). Presented paper at the conference: Living Tradition in Africa and the Americas: The Legacy of Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, (April 4).
		1992 Printmaking Workshop directed by Willibrord Haas. University of Nigeria, Nsukka.