...Brett M. Van Hoesen Over a decade ago, the contemporary artist Mwangi Hutter, comprising Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter, merged names and biographies to become one artist, despite differences of gender, race, age, and cultural backgrounds. Based in Berlin and Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Nairobi...

... the collective in relationship to collections. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 Journal of Contemporary African Art • 34 • Spring 2014 74 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2415222  © 2014 by Nka Publications The ARTIST CORPORATION...

...Lisa Binder Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 MALICK SIDIBE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A PORTRAITIST A film by Susan Vogel National Museum of Mali First Run / Icarus Films, 2006 Portrait of the Artist...

...Angela Read Lloyd Moses Tladi was a realist painter at a time when realism was internationally accepted and admired. This article outlines his life and offers an assessment of his deserved place in Africa’s art history. Tladi first exhibited in 1929 and in 1931 was the first black artist to exhibit...

... history is one of the main topics in António Ole’s artwork. The artist was born into a mixed Angolan and Portuguese family in 1951. His first exhibitions in Luanda took place at the end of the 1960s, before independence. After finishing his film studies in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Ole returned...

... is important for painting today, science fiction and outer space as a frontier for blackness, Ralph Ellison’s influence on him, and Washington’s artistic and cultural inspirations, as well as his experiences as a graduate student. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010...

...Dina A. Ramadan Thirty-two-year-old multimedia artist Ahmed Basiony was one of the earliest martyrs of the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. Shortly after his death his work was selected for the Egyptian pavilion at the fifty-fourth Venice Biennale. This article questions the choice of Basiony...

...Mark Bessire Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 Pope.1 The Friendliest Black Artist in America MARK BESSIRE Black Domestic, 1995-1995 Pope.L's...

...Berni Searle The author/artist provides twenty images from three of her performance and video series: Home and Away (2003), Seeking Refuge (2008), and Mute (2008), complementing them with descriptions of the creative process and the collective experiences the images depict. Themes of identity...

...Godfried Donkor Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 Beyonct_the Boundaries artists from the caribbean...

...Robert Condon Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 FOUR SOUTH language is effectively used to AFRICAN ARTISTS conceal and reveal the truth...

... Copyright © 2006 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2006 Kerry James Marshall, Heirlooms and Accessories, 2002. Inkjet prints on paper in wooden frames with rinestones. Three parts, 87 x 54.25 x 3 in. each. Courtesy of the Artist 134* Nka Journal of Contemporary...

... The Sensitive Line he October 1997 opening of "The ing that war that Uche Okeke, who began to ex• artists have had...

...: at the Bronx Museum and The Studio AFRICAN, ASIAN, & Museum. This made it tough to tell CARIBBEAN ARTISTS IN where one...

...Khaled Hafez Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 Artists, No-Curators, And Other Intellectual Jargon: The International Cairo Biennale Khaled Hafez ike Egyptian soap-operas...

... ARTISTS nal contribution to the show, Colored...

... tions of women artists from Africa. ARTISTS Oguibe briefly traces the discourse...

..., I thought it was far of Ethiopian Artists enough away for detachment and close enough for clarity. I could...