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| Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo -Curriculum Vitae | |
| Born 1950 | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Educated in India & Kenya | |
| 1973-76 | West Surrey College of Art & Design, BA Hons. 1st. Class |
| 1976-79 | Teaching: Commonwealth Institute, London |
| 1979-82 | Royal College of Art, London. MA (RCA) |
| 2008 | Awarded the African Art Recognition Award by Detroit Art Institute's Friends of African and African-American Art |
| Lives and works in Surrey | |
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| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2007 | Resonance & Inspiration: New Works by Magdalene Odundo. Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire. June 7, 2007 - January 20, 2008 |
| 2006 | Resonance & Inspiration: New Works by Magdalene Odundo. Harn Museum of Art, Gainseville, Florida. September 5 - December 31 catalog |
| 2005 | Magdalene Odundo: Ceramic Vessels. British Council, Nairobi, Kenya. March - July |
| 2004 | Magdalene Odundo: Time and Again, Crafts Study Centre. The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, Farnham. June 1 - July 9 |
| 2002 | Acknowledged Sources - Magdalene Odundo: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, August 10 - October 30 |
| 2001 | Magdalene Odundo - Clay Forms - A Retrospective: Blackwell House, Bowness-on-Windemere, United Kingdom, July 4 - September 23 |
| 1997/8 | New Work: Michael Hue-Williams Gallery, London, November 25, 1997 - January 24, 1998 |
| 1997 | Magdalene Odundo: Current Work. Pro-Art, St. Louis, April 29 - May 31 |
| 1995 | Ceramic Gestures: New Vessels by Magdalene Odundo. (a touring exhibition, catalogue) University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California. March 15 - April 23, 1995 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. June 30 - August 20, 1995 The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles. September 24, 1995 - March 3, 1996 The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. April 3 - June 30, 1996 The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. September 15, 1996 - January 1, 1997 Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington, Indiana. January 17 - March 15, 1997 St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri. April 29 - July 6, 1997 |
| 1994 | Magdalene Odundo: African Beauty - A Retrospective: Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, (catalogue) |
| 1993 | The Sloss Furnaces, National Historic Landmark, A Museum of the City of Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
| 1992 | New Ceramics, The Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK Magdalene Odundo - Ceramics Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1991 | Magdalene Odundo, Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue) |
| 1989 | Kunstformen, Jetzt, Salzburg, Austria |
| 1988 | Beaux Arts, Bath, UK |
| 1987 | Magdalene Odundo, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, UK New Works: Magdalene Odundo (catalogue) The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK October 24 - December 5, 1987 Carmarthen Museum, Dyfed, December 19 - January 30, 1988 Ruthin Craft Centre, Clwyd, February 20 - March 19, 1988 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Dyfed, March 26 - May 7, 1988 Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, May 14 - June 25, 1988 |
| 1986 | Crafts Council at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK |
| 1983 | Crafts Council, ICA, London, UK Royal Exchange Theatre Craft, Manchester, UK |
| 1982/3/4 | Rosenthal Studio Haus, West Germany & London, UK |
| 1979-82 | Commonwealth Institute, London, UK |
| 1977 | Africa Centre, London, UK |
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| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2005 | Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back. Seattle Art Museum, February 7 - May 19, 2002 Philadelphia Art Museum, October 3, 2004 - January 2, 2005 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, February 12 - June 19, 2005 Cincinnati Art Museum, October 8, 2005 - January 1, 2006 Frist Center for the Visual Arts, January 27 - April 30, 2006 |
| 2004 | Material Differences: Artists and Identity in Africa. The Museum for African Art, New York City, New York, a touring exhibition. [catalogue} Hamline University, St Paul, Minnesota, USA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
| 2003 | Material Differences: Artists and Identity in Africa. Museum for African Art, New York City. April 8 - August 15, 2003. British Ceramics: Five Artists. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles International Biennial Art Invitational, 2003. July 9 - August 16, 2003 |
| 2002 | Pioneers to the Present, Foyer Gallery, The Surrey Institute of Art and Design, January 14 - February 11, 2002 |
| Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back. Seattle Art Museum, February 6 - May 19, 2002 | |
| 2000 | Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 4 June - 17 September, 2000, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 15 December, 2000 - 4 March, 2001, The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, 1 April -30 May, 2001, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 29 July - 7 October, 2001 British Ceramics 2000, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus, Denmark, April 9 - June 18, 2000, (catalogue) Contemporary African Art: Five Artists, Divers Trends, Indianapolis Museum of Art, August 19 2000 - December 2 2001. Catalogue, pp. 32-40 The Jugs Show, Candover Gallery, Arlesford, Hampshire, UK Millenium Mugs, Besson Gallery, London |
| 1999 | A Dialogue in Clay, Artizana, September 19 - October 8, 1999, (catalogue/Edward Lucie-Smith) |
| 1998 | Contemporary Ceramics - Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. November 24, 1998 - May 30, 1999, (catalogue) Magdalene Odundo, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 1997 | Old Africa - New Africa - Africa Observed, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, November 7 - December 21, 1997 |
| 1996 | New for the Nineties - The Crafts Council Collection, Shipley Arts Gallery, Gateshead, UK March 1 - May 12, 1996 Design of the Times - One Hundred Years of the Royal College of Art, The Royal College of Art, London, February 7 - March 20, 1996 Drinking Glasses, Leerdan Glass Symposium, Leerdam, Netherlands |
| 1995 | Showcase Exhibition, Crafts Council, London, UK September - October 1995 Africa 95 - African Metalwork, Crafts Council, London, UK (curated by Odundo and includes two bronze works from the Sloss Institute of Metal Arts Workshop, 1993, Birmingham, Alabama, USA) Africa 95, British Museum Exhibition, Museum of Mankind, October, 1995 - March, 1996 Contained and Uncontained: Four Clay Artists, African American Museum, Dallas (catalogue) November 10, 1995 - March 17, 1996 |
| 1994 | Art Box, Waregem, Belgium. |
| 101 Jugs, Candover Gallery, Arlesford, UK | |
| Africa Explores - 20th Century African Arts The Museum for African Art, New York City, New York (a touring exhibition 1991-4. catalogue) | |
| Art Contemporain Lyon, France | |
| Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK | |
| 1993 | The Ceramics of Europe '93', Westwald/Kreis, Germany (a touring exhibition: the countries of the EEC) |
| Africa Explores - 20th Century African Arts, | |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. | |
| Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida | |
| Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany | |
| Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain | |
| 1992 | Africa Explores - 20th Century African Arts, |
| Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas | |
| Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
| The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, New York | |
| Columbus Drowning, Rochdale Art Gallery, UK Faculty Invites, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA | |
| 1991 | University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
| 1991/2/3 | Colours of the Earth - Twentieth Century British Ceramics. A British Council touring exhibition in India and Malaysia |
| 1990 | Kunst und Antiquitatenmesse, Galerie L (Frankfurt Art Fair) Germany |
| 1989 | Candover Gallery, Alresford, UK |
| 1986 | Courcoux & Courcoux, Salisbury, UK |
| 1985 | Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool, UK |
| African Heritage Showcases Six African Women Artists.10th Women's Decade Conference, Nairobi, Kenya | |
| 1984 | Individual Eye, Craftsmen Potters Association, London, UK Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, UK |
| 1983/4/5 | Modern British Ceramics, Queensbury Hunt, London, UK Fire & Smoke, Midland Group Touring Exhibition, England |
| 1983 | Craftsmen Potters Association 25th Anniversary, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK |
| 1978 | Commonwealth Arts Festival, Calgary & Edmonton, Canada |
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| Special Projects | |
| 2001-2002 | Fordsburgh Artists Studios - residency invitation, Newtown, South Africa |
| 2000 | The Sloss Furness & Hope Project Fountain Design, a collaboration with Brad Morton at Brad Morton Bronze Casting Workshop, Birmingham, Alabama, USA (design model of fountain made) |
| 1996 | Leerdam - Drinking Glass exhibition & symposium, Leerdam, Netherlands (Magdalene Odundo glass designs show case) |
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| Teaching | |
| 2001 | Professor of Ceramics - The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College |
| 1998 | Artist in residence, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Books (Selected) | |
| Baker, Emma, Contemporary Cultures of Display, New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 1999 | |
| Barley, Nigel, Smashing Pots, London: British Museum Press, 1994 | |
| Blandino, Betty, Coiled Pottery. London: A & C Black, 1984 | |
| Cardew, Michael, A Pioneer Potter, London: Collins, 1988 | |
| Cardew, Michael, Pioneer Pottery, London: A & V Black, 1984 | |
| Clark, Garth and Michael Cardew, An Intimate Account of a Potter who has Captured the Spirit of Country Craft, London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978 | |
| Cooper, Emmanuel, Ten Thousand Years of Pottery, London: British Museum Press, revised, edn. 2000 | |
| Cosentino, Peter, The Encyclopedia of Pottery Techniques, Philadelphia: Running Press, 1990 | |
| de Waal, Edmund, Design Sourcebook: Ceramics, London: New Holland Publishers, 1999 | |
| Freyberg, Annabel, Ceramics for the Home, London: Laurence King, 1999 | |
| Jones, David, Raku, Ramsbury, UK: The Crowood Press, 1999 | |
| Lane, Peter,Ceramic Forms, London: Collins, 1986 | |
| Margetts, Martina {ed.}, International Crafts, London: Thames & Hudson, 1991 | |
| Peterson, Susan, Contemporary Ceramics, London: Laurence King, 2000 | |
| Rice, Paul, and Christopher Growings, British Studio Ceramics in the Twentieth Century, London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1989 | |
| Scott, David, Clay & Glazes in Studio Ceramics, Ramsbury, UK: The Crowood Press, 1990 | |
| Vincentelli, Moira, Women and Ceramics - Gendered Vessels, Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000 | |
| Vogel, Susan, [ed.], Africa Explores: 20th-Century African Art, New York: The Center for African Art. New York and Munich: Prestel, 1991 | |
| Watson, Oliver, British Studio Potters in the Victoria & Albert Collection, London: Phaidon/Christie's, 1990 | |
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| Articles | |
| 'Artist Synthesizes African and Western Ideas in Art', Kansas State Globe, Kansas City, July 6,1995 | |
| Blandino, Betty. Private Conversations, Ceramic Review, March/April, 1998, pp.31-33 | |
| Berns, Marla. Ceramic Gestures, Contact, Spring, 1997, pp.10-13 | |
| Graham-Dixon, Andrew, 'Magdalene Odundo', Observer Magazine, (June 2, 1985) | |
| Bowye, Leslie R. 'A Love Affair with Form', New Times, August 10-16, 1995. (Kansas City) | |
| Briers, David, review, Arts Review, (December 1987) | |
| Buck, Louisa, 'The Critics Eye', Crafts, (November/December 1989) | |
| Doone, J., Magdalene Odundo, Antique Collector, 1977 | |
| Estrada, Andrea, 'The Ceramic Art of Magdalene Odundo', Independent, April 20,1995 | |
| Evans, Max, 'Nelson's exhibits shine spotlight on pottery...' Olathe Daily News, August 5, 1995 | |
| Magdalene Odundo Ceramics Monthly, September, 1995, p.18 | |
| Margrie, Victor, 'Review of new work, Oxford Gallery', Craft, (November/December, 1992) 'New works by Magdalene Odundo' | |
| 'Exhibition of Magdalene Odundo's works at Nelson-Atkins Kansas', City Globe, July 14, 1995, p.6-7 | |
| Kenyan Heritage, Crafts 67, March/April, 1984 | |
| Magdalene Odundo, Crafts 92, May/June, 1988 | |
| 'Magdalene Odundo', Ceramics Monthly, p.30-33. May, 1991 | |
| Glancey, Jonathan, 'The Universal Truths Behind Designer Labels', The Independent, April 8, 1989 | |
| Hill, Rosemary, Workshops of the World, Crafts, (January/February, 1991) | |
| Howell, Sarah, 'Shop Tactics', World of Interiors, June, 1990 | |
| 'Graceful Ceramics', This Week in Santa Barbara, March 23-30, 1995 | |
| Greenhalgh, Paul, A Review of Contemporary Ceramics at Christie's, Ceramic Review, (Nov./Dec., 1984) | |
| Joris, Yvonne G.J.M., ed., Magdalene Odundo, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands: Het Kruithuis Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, 1994) | |
| Muchnic, Suzanne, 'British ceramics: Five Artists', American Craft, October/November, 2003, p.77 | |
| Norrie, Jane, 'Review of Magdalene Odundo at the Oxford Gallery', Arts Review, (August, 1992) | |
| Peebles, Debra, 'Forms, Vibration and Spirit', Pitch Weekly, July 20-26, 1995, p.26 | |
| Queensbury, David, 'Magdalene Odundo', (London, 1991) | |
| Report, Ceramic Review 100, July, 1986 | |
| Report, Christie's, London, 1986 | |
| Review, Craft 45, December, 1987 | |
| Review, Craft 44, September, 1987 | |
| Staal, Gert. 'Magdalene Odundo - Silent Dancers', kerameiki techni, December, 1997, pp.8-11 | |
| 'The Peach, Artist synthesizes African &Western ideas in art', Kansas City Star, Wed., August 9, 1995, p.18 | |
| Thompson, Robert Farris, 'Afro-Modernism', Artforum, (September, 1991): 91-94, illustration | |
| Thorson, Alice, 'International Influences seen in Kansas City art spaces', Kansas City Star, July 14, 1995, p.17 | |
| Tressida, Megan, 'A Feat of Clay', World of Interiors, (June, 1984) | |
| Vogel, Susan, ed., 'Africa Explores: 20th-Century African Art' (New York: The Museum for African Art, New York and Munich: Prestel, 1991) | |
| Watts, I., 'Magdalene Odundo', Africa Magazine, 1977 | |
| Wainwright, Martin, 'Craftnotes', Crafts, (March/April, 1989) | |
| Wingrave, Hannah, 'Magdalene Odundo', Ceramics in Society, Autumn, 2001, pp.13-19 | |
| Wood, Eoline, 'A Visit with MagdaleneOdundo',The Studio Potter, Fall, 1991 | |
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| Films and Video | |
| Out of Africa, Bacchanal Film, Insight Production, Channel 4 Television, 1984 | |
| Magdalene Odundo, a video produced by East Midlands Arts, 1989 | |
| Ceramic Gestures: A Conversation with Magdalene Odundo, Victoria Vesna, dir., Television Studios of Instructional Resources, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995, 9 min., videocassette | |
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| Selected Public Collections | |
| African Heritage, Nairobi | |
| Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas | |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | |
| Art Box, Waregem, Belgium | |
| Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe | |
| Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain | |
| Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama | |
| The British Museum, London | |
| The Brooklyn Museum, New York | |
| Buckinghamshire County Museum, Great Britain | |
| The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh | |
| The Cleveland Crafts Centre, Middlesborough, UK | |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | |
| Commonwealth Institute, London | |
| The Crafts Council, London | |
| The Detroit Institute of Art | |
| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Museum | |
| The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, | |
| Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Hood Museum of Art | |
| Indiana University Art Museum | |
| Indianapolis Museum of Art | |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Minneapolis Institute of Art | |
| Murumbi Collection, Nairobi, Kenya | |
| The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | |
| Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg | |
| Museum für Kunsthandwerke, Frankfurt | |
| National Design Museum, Cooper-Hewitt/Smithsonian Institution, New York | |
| National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. | |
| The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City | |
| The Newark Museum | |
| Nottingham City Gallery, Nottingham, Great Britain | |
| Rosenthal Collection, Hamburg | |
| The Saint Louis Museum of Art | |
| Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville | |
| Seattle Art Museum | |
| Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagst Kunst, Netherlands | |
| Victoria & Albert Museum, London Wakefield Schools and Resources Museum, Wakefield, UK | |
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