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Wosene (Addis Ababa, 1950) è un artista senegalese.

Wosene Worke Kosrof, artista di fama internazionale, e’ stato tra i primi artisti africani contemporanei ad attirare l'attenzione della critica. Le sue opere sono incluse nelle collezioni permanenti di numerosi musei,</ref>tra cui lo Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (DC), il Museo di Newark (NJ), il Neuberger Museum (NY),l’Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN), e il Birmingham Museum of Art ( AL)</ref> e in molte collezioni internazionali, pubbliche, private e aziendali.

Mostre personali

2009

• Skoto Gallery, New York, NY

2008

• Contemporary African Art, New York, NY

2007

• Madelyn Jordon Fine Arts, Scarsdale, NY
• Addis Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Guilford College Gallery of Art, Greensboro, NC

2006

• Mexican Heritage Museum, San Jose, CA
• Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
• Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
• Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2005

• St. George Gallery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2004

• The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
• Hoshigaoka Gallery, Kochi, Japan

;2003 

• Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
• Galeria Botello, San Juan, PR

2002

• Museum of Antigua/Barbuda, St. Johns, Antigua

  ;2001  

• Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Folkens Museum Ethografiska, Stockholm, Sweden

;2000 

• Parish Gallery, Washington, DC

Mostre collettive (selezione)

2009

• Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

;2008 

• CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA

 ;2007 

• Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
• Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2006

• Parish Gallery, Washington, DC
• San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

;2005    

• Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
• Museum of Art, Austin, TX

;2004 

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2003

• Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC

1998

• Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

1997

• Wright Gallery, New York, NY

1996

• Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden

1995

• Whitechapel Gallery, London, England

1992

• Crocker Museum, Annual Juried Exhibition, Sacramento, CA

1991

• Zweigmuseum Schloss Oettingen, Oettingen, Germany

1990

• Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT

1989

• Dibden Art Gallery, Johnson, VT
• Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (group)
• Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT (group)

1988

• The World Bank, Washington, DC
• AVA Gallery, Hanover, NH
• Gallery 2, Woodstock, VT (group)
• Horizons Gallery, Campton, NH (group)
• University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, MD (group)

1987

• Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Chandler Gallery, Randolph, VT
• Bernson Gallery, Ashland, NH (group)

1986

• United Nations, New York, NY
• AVA Gallery, Hanover, NH
• Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, VT (group)
• Bernson Gallery, Ashland, NH (group)

1985

• Stamford Art, Stamford, CT (group)
• Gallery 401, Providence, RI (group)

1984

• Albert Gordon Art Gallery, New York, NY
• Meridian House, Washington, DC (group)
• Gallery Fondo del Sol, Washington, DC (group)

;1983    

• Department of Education, Washington, DC

1982

• Pacifica Radio, Washington, DC
• Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (group)
• University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, MD (group)
• Pelington Gallery, Columbus, OH (group)
• Studio Makola, Washington, DC (group)

1981

• Franz Bader, Washington, DC (group)
• Commonwealth Institute, London, England (group)

1980

• Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Haitian Museum, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (group)
• Elan Gallery, Bethesda, MD (group)

1978

• Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (group)
• Gallery Paa Ya Paa, Nairobi, Kenya (group)

1977

• City Hall, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (group)
• Alliance Francaise, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (group)

1976

• Organization of African Unity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (group)
• Universal Art Gallery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (group)
• Goethe Institute, Nairobi, Kenya (group)

1975

• Hall de l'Information, Menelik, Afar & Isas, Djibouti (group)
• French Cultural Institute, Nairobi, Kenya (group)

1974

• Belvedere Gallery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Goethe Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1973

• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• Wabi Shebele Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Union Carbide Hall, New York NY (group)
• Alliance Francaise, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (group)
• Addis Ababa Hilton, Ethiopia (group)

;1972 

• Africa Creates '72, New York, NY (group)

;1970   

• National Exhibition Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Commissioni e progetti

• Francobollo per la campagna delle Nazioni Unite “Africa in Crisi” (1986).

Conferenze (selezione)

• UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (2011)
• National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa (2010)
• School of Art and Design, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (2010)
• UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (2009)

*Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (2007)   

• Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (2007)
• Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (2007)
• Guilford College Gallery of Art, Greensboro, NC (2007)
• San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (2006)
• CA Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA (2006)
• Columbia College, Chicago, IL (2005)
• UNESCO Symposium on Art Education, Newark, NJ (2005)
• Painting used as poster for Biennial Poetry Festival, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Hillsborough, NJ (2004)
• The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (2004)
• Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (2004)
• Clark University, Worcester, MA (2004)
• Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (2003)
• Folkens Museum Ehnografiska, Stockholm, Sweden (2001)
• Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (1999)
• Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy (1996)
• Alliance Française, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1995)
• Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA (1992)
• African Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO (1987)
• Dartmouth College, Hanover, VT (1984)
• Howard University, Washington, DC (1982)

Collezioni

• Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC

• The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

• Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

• Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

• Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

• Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

• Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida at Gainesville

• Völkerkunde Museum, Zürich, Switzerland

• National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• City of Addis Ababa Museum, Ethiopia
• United Nations, New York, NY

• Rockefeller Collection, New York, NY

• World Bank, Washington, DC

• Library of Congress, Washington, DC

• Bank of Hanover, Hanover, NH

• University of CA Medical Center, Davis, CA

• Summit Hospital, Oakland, CA

• Chikamori Hospital, Kochi, Japan

• Howard University, Washington, DC

• Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

• University of Maryland Eastern Shore, MD

• Le sue opera sono presenti in molte collezioni private internazionali.

Bibliografia

• Christa Clarke, "My Ethiopia: Recent Paintings by Wosene Worke Kosrof", The Newark Museum/Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2003.

• Allyson Purpura,Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, “Words: From Spoken to Seen. The Art of Wosene Worke Kosrof”,Mexican Heritage Corporation, San Jose CA, 2006.

• Elizabeth Harney, “Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora”, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution in association with Philip Wilson Publishers, Washington DC, 2003.

• Salah M.Hassan, "The Khartoum and Addis Connections: Two Stories from Sudan and Ethiopia", In Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa, ed. Clementine Deliss, London, 1995.

• Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield, “Contemporary African Art”, London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1999.

• Jean Kennedy, "Wosene Kosrof of Ethiopia," African Arts 22/3 (May 1987): 64-66, 89.

• Jean Kennedy, "New Currents, Ancient Rivers: Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change", Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1992.

Voci correlate

arte africana contemporanea

Collegamenti esterni

[[1]] Sito ufficiale dell’artista

[[2]] Wosene Worke Kosrof suls ito della Bekris gallery

[[3]] Wosene Worke Kosrof su wikipedia en

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[[5]] Biografia di Wosene Worke Kosrof

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