About the Artist
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her work investigates the connections between physical actions of the body, memory, history and power. Ogunji’s most recent public performance ‘one hundred black women, one hundred actions’ premiered at Fusebox Festival and was nominated for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Award. Ogunji was awarded The Dallas Museum of Art’s 2010 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant and has received grants from the Idea Fund, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the City of Austin. Ogunji is a selected Artist in Residence as part of the National Performance Network’s Visual Artist Network and has participated in residencies at Can Serrat in Spain and Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. Selected exhibitions include Négritude at Exit Art (NY), Screwed Anthologies at labotanica (Houston) and New American Talent: The 22nd Exhibition at Arthouse at the Jones Center (Austin, TX). She is the curator of 2412, a series of twenty-four hour long performances. Ogunji has a BA from Stanford University (Anthropology) and an MFA from San Jose State University (Photography). She lives in Austin, Texas. www.wuraogunji.com