Egun Dance 04

Date2016

MediumGraphite and acrylic on paper with cowries

Credit LineAnonymous gift

DimensionsFramed: 65 5/8 × 45 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (166.7 × 114.9 × 6.4 cm) Sheet: 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm)

Object number2017.001.002

Exhibition HistoryDO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance (travelling show), Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, August 26 - October 8, 2016; Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, February 23 - April 7, 2018; University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, New Hampshire, August 27 - October 21, 2018); Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, January 19 - April 28, 2019; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, May 25 - August 25, 2019; Sonja Haynes Stone Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 19 - November 21, 2019

Powers Concealed: Egungns from Africa and America. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, October 15, 2022 - January 29, 2023

Avant-Garde and Liberation Zeitgenössische Kunst und dekoloniale Moderne / Contemporary Art and Decolonial Modernism. Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), June 7, 2024 - September 22, 2024.
Published ReferencesAvant-Garde and Liberation: Contemporary Art and Decolonial modernism. Christian Kavagna, ed. Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), 2024. Illus. p. 179.

Nana Adusei-Poku in conversation with Christian Kravagna. "A Futurity Embedded in a Past that Allowed for an Otherwise to Emerge." in Avant-Garde and Liberation: Contemporary Art and Decolonial modernism. Christian Kavagna, ed. Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), 2024. Illus p. 121.

ProvenancePurchased by MCCM from Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, New York.

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