Magdalene Odundo
b. 1950
Solo Exhibitions
| 2013 | Magdalene Odundo - Ceramics, Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels Week 2013, Belgium Design Miami, Pierre Marie Giraud |
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| 2010 | Magdalene Odundo - Ceramic Forms, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY, USA |
| 2009 | Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK |
| 2008 | Magdalene Odundo - Ceramic Work and Drawings, Jeffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College in conjunction with artist in residence programme, NH, USA |
| 2007-08 | Resonance & Inspiration: New Works by Magdalene Odundo, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA |
| 2006 | Resonance & Inspiration: New Works by Magdalene Odundo, Harn Musuem of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| 2005 | Magdalene Odundo: Ceramic Vessels, British Council, Nairobi, Kenya |
| 2004 | Magdalene Odundo: Time and Again, Crafts Study Centre, The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, Farnham, UK |
| 2002 | Acknowledged Sources - Magdalene Odundo, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, UK |
| 2001 | Magdalene Odundo - Clay Forms - A Retrospective, Blackwell House, Bowness-on-Windermere, UK |
| 1997-98 | New Work, Michael Hue-Williams Gallery, London, UK |
| 1997 | Magdalene Odundo: Current Work, Pro-Art, St. Louis, MO, USA |
| 1995 | Ceramic Gestures: New Vessels by Magdalene Odundo (a touring exhibition), University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN; St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO, USA |
| 1994 | Magdalene Odundo: African Beauty - A Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
| 1993 | The Sloss Furnaces, National Historic Landmark, A Museum of the City of Birmingham, AL, USA |
| 1992 | New Ceramics, The Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK Magdalene Odundo - Ceramics, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1991 | Magdalene Odundo, Anthony Ralph Gallery, NY, USA |
| 1989 | Kunstformen, Jetzt, Salzburg, Austria |
| 1988 | Beaux Arts, Bath, UK |
| 1987 | Magdalene Odundo, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, UK New Works: Magdalene Odundo (touring exhibition): The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Carmarthen Museum, Dyfed; Ruthin Craft Centre, Clwyd; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Dyfed; Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK |
| 1986 | Crafts Council at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK |
| 1983 | Crafts Council, ICA, London, UK Royal Exchange Theatre Craft, Manchester, UK |
| 1982, 83, 84 | Rosenthal Studio Haus, West Germany & London, UK |
| 1979-82 | Commonwealth Institute, London, UK |
| 1977 | Africa Centre, London, UK |
Group Exhibitions
| 2013 | The Global Africa Project, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA |
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| 2012 | The Global Africa Project, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| 2011 | Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramics, Glass and Wood, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA Design Basel, Pierre Marie Giraud Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2010 | The Global Africa Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, USA Circuits Céramiques Presse Communiqué, Helen Aziza, Paris, France Basins, Baskets and Bowls: Women Explore the Vessel, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| 2009 | Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, NJ, USA |
| 2008 | Black Womanhood, curated by Barbara Thompson for the Hood Museum (touring exhibition), Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA |
| 2005 | Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA |
| 2004 | Material Differences: Artists and Identity in Africa. The Museum for African Art (touring exhibition), New York City, NY; Hamline University, St Paul, MN; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
| 2003 | Material Differences: Artists and Identity in Africa. Museum for African Art, New York City, NY, USA British Ceramics: Five Artists, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA International Biennial Art Invitational, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2002 | Pioneers to the Present, Foyer Gallery, The Surrey Institute of Art and Design, UK Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA |
| 2000 | Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 (touring exhibition), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, AZ; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA British Ceramics 2000, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus, Denmark Contemporary African Art: Five Artists, Divers Trends, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN The Jugs Show, Candover Gallery, Arlesford, Hampshire, UK Millenium Mugs, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1999 | A Dialogue in Clay, Artizana |
| 1998 | Contemporary Ceramics - Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Magdalene Odundo, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA, USA |
| 1997 | Old Africa - New Africa - Africa Observed, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS, USA |
| 1996 | New for the Nineties - The Crafts Council Collection, Shipley Arts Gallery, Gateshead, UK Design of the Times - One Hundred Years of the Royal College of Art, The Royal College of Art, London, UK Drinking Glasses, Leerdan Glass Symposium, Leerdam, Netherlands |
| 1995 | Showcase Exhibition, Crafts Council, London, UK Africa 95 - African Metalwork, Crafts Council, London, UK Africa 95, British Museum Exhibition, Museum of Mankind, London, UK Contained and Uncontained: Four Clay Artists, African American Museum, Dallas, TX, USA |
| 1994 | Art Box, Waregem, Belgium 101 Jugs, Candover Gallery, Arlesford, UK Africa Explores - 20th Century African Arts, Art Contemporain, Lyon, France Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
| 1993 | The Ceramics of Europe '93', Westwald/Kreis, Germany (touring exhibition) Africa Explores - 20th Century African Arts (touring exhibition): Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1992 | Africa Explores - 20th Century African Arts (touring exhibition): Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA Columbus Drowning, Rochdale Art Gallery, UK Faculty Invites, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA |
| 1991, 92, 93 | Colours of the Earth - Twentieth Century British Ceramics, A British Council touring exhibition in India and Malaysia |
| 1991 | Africa Explores - 20th Century African Arts (touring exhibition): The Museum for African Art, New York, NY; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| 1990 | Kunst und Antiquitatenmesse, Galerie L (Frankfurt Art Fair), Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1989 | Candover Gallery, Alresford, UK |
| 1986 | Courcoux & Courcoux, Salisbury, UK |
| 1985 | Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool, UK African Heritage Showcases Six African Women Artists, 10th Women's Decade Conference, Nairobi, Kenya |
| 1984 | Individual Eye, Craftsmen Potters Association, London, UK Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, UK |
| 1983, 84, 85 | Modern British Ceramics, Queensbury Hunt, London, UK Fire & Smoke, Midland Group Touring Exhibition, UK |
| 1983 | Craftsmen Potters Association 25th Anniversary, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK |
| 1978 | Commonwealth Arts Festival, Calgary & Edmonton, Canada |
Public Collections
Aberystwyth University Art Museum, Aberystwyth, UK
African Heritage, Nairobi, Kenya
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Art Box, Waregem, Belgium
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology/University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
The British Museum, London, UK
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
Buckinghamshire County Museum, UK
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA, USA
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The Cleveland Crafts Centre, Middlesborough, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Commonwealth Institute, London, UK
The Crafts Council, London, UK
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, USA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, USA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, IL, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Murumbi Collection, Nairobi, Kenya
Museum for African Art, New York, NY, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Museum für Kunsthandwerke, Frankfurt, Germany
National Design Museum, Cooper-Hewitt/Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY, USA
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, USA
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USA
Nottingham City Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Rosenthal Collection, Hamburg, Germany
The Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO, USA
Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagst Kunst, Netherlands
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Wakefield Schools and Resources Museum, Wakefield, UK
Selected Publications (Books)
Baker, Emma, Contemporary Cultures of Display, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 1999
Barley, Nigel, Smashing Pots, London: British Museum Press, 1994
Blandino, Betty, Coiled Pottery, London: A & C Black, 1984
Cardew, Michael, A Pioneer Potter, London: Collins, 1988
Cardew, Michael, Pioneer Pottery, London: A & V Black, 1984
Clark, Garth and Michael Cardew, An Intimate Account of a Potter who has Captured the Spirit of Country Craft, London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978
Cooper, Emmanuel, Ten Thousand Years of Pottery, London: British Museum Press, revised, edn. 2000
Cosentino, Peter, The Encyclopedia of Pottery Techniques, Philadelphia: Running Press, 1990
de Waal, Edmund, Design Sourcebook: Ceramics, London: New Holland Publishers, 1999
Freyberg, Annabel, Ceramics for the Home, London: Laurence King, 1999
Jones, David, Raku, Ramsbury, UK: The Crowood Press, 1999
Lane, Peter, Ceramic Forms, London: Collins, 1986
Margetts, Martina (ed.), International Crafts, London: Thames & Hudson, 1991
Peterson, Susan, Contemporary Ceramics, London: Laurence King, 2000
Rice, Paul, and Christopher Growings, British Studio Ceramics in the Twentieth Century, London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1989
Scott, David, Clay & Glazes in Studio Ceramics, Ramsbury, UK: The Crowood Press, 1990
Vincentelli, Moira, Women and Ceramics - Gendered Vessels, Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000
Vogel, Susan (ed.), Africa Explores: 20th-Century African Art, New York: The Center for African Art. New York and Munich: Prestel, 1991
Watson, Oliver, British Studio Potters in the Victoria & Albert Collection, London: Phaidon/Christie's, 1990
Selected Publications (Articles)
Artist Synthesizes African and Western Ideas in Art, Kansas State Globe, Kansas City, July 6,1995
Blandino, Betty. Private Conversations, Ceramic Review, March/April, 1998, p. 31-33
Berns, Marla. Ceramic Gestures, Contact, Spring, 1997, p.10-13
Bowye, Leslie R. A Love Affair with Form, New Times, Kansas City, August 10-16, 1995
Briers, David, review, Arts Review, December 1987
Buck, Louisa, The Critics Eye, Crafts, November/December 1989
Doone, J., Magdalene Odundo, Antique Collector, 1977
Estrada, Andrea, The Ceramic Art of Magdalene Odundo, Independent, April 20,1995
Evans, Max, Nelson's exhibits shine spotlight on pottery..., Olathe Daily News, August 5, 1995
Magdalene Odundo, Ceramics Monthly, September, 1995, p.18
Exhibition of Magdalene Odundo's works at Nelson-Atkins Kansas, City Globe, July 14, 1995, p.6-7
Magdalene Odundo, Crafts 92, May/June, 1988
Magdalene Odundo, Ceramics Monthly, p.30-33. May, 1991
Glancey, Jonathan, The Universal Truths Behind Designer Labels, The Independent, April 8, 1989
Graceful Ceramics, This Week in Santa Barbara, March 23-30, 1995
Graham-Dixon, Andrew, Magdalene Odundo, Observer Magazine, June 2, 1985
Greenhalgh, Paul, A Review of Contemporary Ceramics at Christie's, Ceramic Review, November/December 1984
Hill, Rosemary, Workshops of the World, Crafts, January/February, 1991
Howard, Ashley, The Enigmatic Drawing of Magdalene Odundo, Ceramic Review, November 2010
Howell, Sarah, Shop Tactics, World of Interiors, June 1990
Joris, Yvonne G.J.M. (ed.), Magdalene Odundo, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands: Het Kruithuis Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, 1994
Kenyan Heritage, Crafts 67, March/April 1984
Margrie, Victor, Review of New Work, Oxford Gallery, Craft, November/December 1992, New works by Magdalene Odundo
Muchnic, Suzanne, British ceramics: Five Artists, American Craft, October/November 2003, p. 77
Norrie, Jane, Review of Magdalene Odundo at the Oxford Gallery, Arts Review, August 1992
Olding, Simon, NSEAD Art & Design, November
Peebles, Debra, Forms, Vibration and Spirit, Pitch Weekly, July 20-26, 1995, p. 26
Queensbury, David, Magdalene Odundo, London, 1991
Report, Ceramic Review 100, July 1986
Report, Christie's, London, 1986
Review, Craft 45, December 1987
Review, Craft 44, September 1987
Staal, Gert, Magdalene Odundo - Silent Dancers, Kerameiki Techni, December 1997, p. 8-11
The Peach, Artist Synthesizes African & Western Ideas in Art, Kansas City Star, Wed., August 9, 1995, p.18
Thompson, Robert Farris, Afro-Modernism, Artforum, September 1991, p. 91-94
Thorson, Alice, International Influences Seen in Kansas City Art Spaces, Kansas City Star, July 14, 1995, p.17
Cantor Arts Center Journal, 2008-9, Vol.6, p. 111-113
Tressida, Megan, A Feat of Clay, World of Interiors, June 1984
Vogel, Susan, (ed.), Africa Explores: 20th-Century African Art, New York: The Museum for African Art, New York and Munich, Prestel, 1991
Watts, I., Magdalene Odundo, Africa Magazine, 1977
Wainwright, Martin,Craftnotes, Crafts, March/April 1989
Wingrave, Hannah, Magdalene Odundo, Ceramics in Society, Autumn 2001, p. 13-19
Wood, Eoline, A Visit with Magdalene Odundo, The Studio Potter, Autumn 1991
Chapter 7, The African Literature Association Annual Series, Vol.15
Films & Video
Out of Africa, Bacchanal Film, Insight Production, Channel 4 Television, 1984
Magdalene Odundo, East Midlands Arts, 1989
Ceramic Gestures: A Conversation with Magdalene Odundo, Victoria Vesna, dir., Television Studios of Instructional Resources, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995 (videocassette)
Teaching Positions
| 2011 | Artist in residency, Print Workshop, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland Artist in residency, MOG in Hot Glass Art, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA Artist in residency, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA, USA |
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| 2010 | Form, Master Class with Magdalene Odundo, NorthLands Creative Glass, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland |
| 2009 | Artist in residence, Huara Huara, Santiago, Chile Faculty artist and instructor, Haystack, ME, USA |
| 2008 | Artist in residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA Artist in residence, exhibition at the Jaffe Friede Gallery of Drawings and Ceramics and installation of Acknowledged Sources, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA |
| 1998 | Artist in residence, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA |
Special Projects
| 2010 | Keramiek Seminar, De Goudse Schouwburg, Gouda, Netherlands |
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| 2009 | The 3rd EgeArt ART DAYS, Ege University, Ataturk Cultural Centre, Izmir, Turkey (exhibition participant and speaker) |
| 2008 | Clay Art and Function (ISCAEE), Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya (advisor and participant) |
| 2007 | Borrowing Heritage, the 2007 International Symposium & Exhibition (International Society for Ceramics Art Education Exchange, ISCAEE) University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK (co-ordinator, organiser and keynote speaker) Professor Magdalene Odundo - 30 Years of Making, Venice Biennale. British Council panel member for British Pavilion Artist Lecture, Loew Auditorium, The Hood Museum, Hannover, NH, USA |
| 2006 | Resonance and Inspiration, Artist Lecture. The Samuel Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| 2000 | The Sloss Furness & Hope Project Fountain Design (a collaboration with Brad Morton at Brad Morton Bronze Casting Workshop), Birmingham, AL, USA |
| 1996 | Leerdam - Drinking Glass, exhibition and symposium, Leerdam, Netherlands |