OSARETIN UGIAGBE

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B. 1986 Lagos, Nigeria

Living and working in New York City

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EDUCATION 

2019 Master of Art (Painting Program) - Royal College of Art, London UK 

2009 Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) - Long Island University (C.W post campus) Long Island, New York 

2007 Associate of Science (Information systems) - Hostos Community College. Bronx, New York

 

 

PUBLIC ACQUISITION

Girl in White Lace (Lagos, Nigeria) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (July 2017)

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ART PRIZE

2019/20 Travers Smith CSR Program winner

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ARTIST TALK

The Ruskin School of Art – University of Oxford (February 8, 2019)

Un-belonging: Moderated by Stephanie Baptist, Bronx Documentary Center (July 22, 2017)

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RESIDENCE(S)

Tao Hua Tan, International Spring Artist Retreat and Painting Residence - Jungian County in southern Anhui, China (May 25th, 2018 - June 10th)

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SOLO EXHIBITION

July 2017: Un-belonging - Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx NY

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

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2020

FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London U.K

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2019

Travers Smith CSR program, London U.K  2019

Royal College of Art Painting Degree Show, London, U.K - June 2019

Painting from the Other Side curated by Shannon Forrester (PhD) – Dyson Gallery, London, U.K - April 2019

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2018

De Cacaofabriek - A New York State of Mind - Stories from the Unusual Suspects – Helmond, Netherlands - Sept 2018

Africa and African Identity Through the Eyes of African Artists - Yale's African Initiative, New Haven, Connecticut - April 2018  

RCA WIP Show - Royal College of Art, London - Jan 2018

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2016

Jerome Avenue Workers - Bronx Photo League - Photoville, Brooklyn, NY - Sept 2016

The Bronx Speaks: Our Home - Bronx Art Space, Bronx, New York - Mar 2016

Bronx: Africa co-curated by LeRonn Brooks - Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York - Feb 2016

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2015

Intersecting Imaginaries - No Longer Empty- Bronx Photo League - Concourse Plaza Hotel, Bronx, New York - Nov 2015

Jerome Avenue Workers - Bronx Photo League - Vasquez Muffler, Bronx, New York - Oct 2015

Tracie Hervy collaboration with Osaretin Ugiagbe - Fragments of a Chronology, 2015. Video: 15mins. Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx Aim Program), Bronx, New York - July 2015

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2014

Five from 150 - Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York - Sept 2014

Bronx X Bronx - Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, New York - Sept, 2014

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2011

Brooklyn Art Space: 50/50, Brooklyn, New York  - Aug, 2011

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PUBLICATIONS

• Exit #68 Street Photography Editorial: Productions of Art and Thought, S.L. Year: November / 2017 Language: Spanish English Pages: 176 Binding: Rustic ISSN: 1577-2721 ISBN: 9771577272008-68

• Jerome Ave (Bronx Photo League) 136 pages 93 black-and-white images Hardcover, linen-bound 978-0-692-76889-1 September 2016

• Columbia Journal Review March/April 2015 Vol. 54 Issue 1, p6-9. 3p. 1 Color Photograph. ISSN: 0010-194X

• Literature & fiction book titled:Stillborn by Diekoye Oyeyinka. Cover by Osaretin Ugiagbe. Published by East African Educational Publishers (July 17, 2014)

 

 

PROJECTS

• Travers Smith CSR program, London U.K  2019

• Duro Olowu Picks the Best Street Style From Frieze London and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair for American Vogue

• A cameo for "Young Documentarians"  by Gareth Smith for the New York Times, 2017 

• Five Journal, March 2017

• Code Unknown collaboration with Tracie Hervy

• Painted a mural for the upcoming Art film Lion's Den, written and directed by Ben Hozie, 2014

• Painted three canvases for the 16mm short Art film Annunciation (a triptych), written and directed By Ben Hozie, 2012

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SELECTED PRESS/REVIEWS

• ELEPHANT ART: THE LONDON MFA SHOWS: ART IN A WORLD ON THE EDGE OF CHANGE (2019)

• HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: 10 QUESTION WITH OSARETIN UGIAGBE (2019)

• FINANCIAL TIMES: SNAPSHOT; UNBELONGING BY OSARETIN UGIAGBE (2017)

• NEW YORK TIMES:  OF THE BRONX AND OF NIGERIA (2017

• PDN ONLINE: A SPLIT VIEW OF NEW YORK AND LAGOS (2017)

• OKAY AFRICA: FROM LAGOS TO THE BRONX, PHOTOGRAPHER OSARETIN UGIAGBE DOCUMENTS THE IN-BETWEEN (2017)

• AFRICA IS A COUNTRY: THE WORLD OF PHOTOGRAPHER OSARETIN UGIAGBE (2017)

• FOX 5: PHOTOGRAPHER OSARETIN UGIAGBE'S EXHIBIT  (2017)

• EXIT-EXPRESS: UNBELONGING DE OSARETIN UGIAGBE  (2017))

• MOTT HAVEN HERALD: DEBUT EXHIBIT SHOWS AN ARTIST WITH A FOOT IN TWO WORLDS (2017)

•  BRONX NET: ARTIST TALK  OSARETIN UGIAGBE (2017)

• CBS: THE BEST OF NY'S POPUP PHOTO FESTIVAL (2016)

• THE VILLAGE VOICE: THE MOST STRIKING IMAGES TO SEE AT PHOTOVILLE (2016)

• PHOTOVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE BOROUGH (2016)

• THE RIVERDALE PRESS:  IN THE BRONX HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS (2016)

• NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:  LONGWOOD ARTS PROJECTS CELEBRATES AFRICA (2015)

• NEW YORK TIMES:  BRACING FOR GENTRIFICATION (2016)

• COLOMBIA JOURNAL REVIEW: LETTERS TO THE EDITORS (2015)

• COLOMBIA JOURNAL REVIEW: DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM THE SOUTH BRONX (2015)