MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE)
2023
Behind the Red Moon, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2022
Part I, 2013-2022, Galerie RX, Paris, France
Freedom, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
El Anatsui: Shard Song, Efie Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2021
El Anatsui : En quête de liberté, La Conciergerie, Paris, France
The Ancestors Are Converging Again, Everard Read Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa
Saison Africa 2020, Conciergerie de Paris, Paris, France
2020
Focus on El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Museum of Fine Art, Bern, Switzerland
El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2019
El Anatsui: Material Wonder, October Gakkery, London, United Kingdom
El Anatsui: Recent Works, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, USA
El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Haus Der Kunst Munich, Munich, Germany
2018
Ofrendas, Detroit Institute of Arts, Détroit, USA
El Anatsui: Meyina, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
Proximately, Axel Vervoordt gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Benchmarks: New Prints by El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Prints, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
El Anatsui: Topology of Generosity, Bakarat Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
El Anatsui: The Beginning and the End, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2016
El Anatsui, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
El Anatsui: New Works, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Afrikas stjerne - Monumentale værker af El Anatsui, Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, South Jutland, Denmark
El Anatsui: Five Decades, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
2015
XiXe, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
El Anatsui: Five Decades, The School, Kinderhook, New York, USA
El Anatsui, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway
2014
El Anatsui: Theory of SE, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, China
El Anatsui, Galerie Mnuchin, New York, USA
El Anatsui: Playing with Chance, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
El Anatsui: New Worlds, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA
El Anatsui: Trains of Thoughts, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2013
TSIATSIA – Searching for Connection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
El Anatsui: Pot of Wisdom, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2012-2015
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, Akron Art Museum, USA (then at Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; Des Moines Art Center, USA; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA)
2012
Broken Bridge II, High Line, New York, USA
El Anatsui: Post of Wisdom, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Stitch in Time, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2011
El Anatsui, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA
2010
El Anatsui, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
El Anatsui: Gli, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA
When I Last Wrote To You About Africa, touring exhibition until 2012 (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, USA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA; Denver Art Museum, USA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA; Museum for African Art, New York, USA)
A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Works of El Anatsui, touring exhibition until 2011 (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Japan; Tsuruoka Art Forum, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan)
2009
El Anatsui: Process and Project, BRIC Contemporary Art (organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art), New York, USA
El Anatsui, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, USA
2008
Zebra Crossing, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Earth Growing Roots, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
El Anatsui: Gawu, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
2007
El Anatsui: Gawu, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, USA
El Anatsui: Gawu, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
El Anatsui: Gawu, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, USA
2006
El Anatsui: Nyekor, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy
El Anatsui: Asi, David Krut Projects, New York, USA
2005
Danudo: Recent Sculptures of El Anatsui, Galerie Skoto, New York, USA
El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2003
El Anatsui: Gawu, touring exhibition (Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, United Kingdom; October Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA)
2002
El Anatsui: Recent Works, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1998
El Anatsui: As Sculpted History of Africa, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1997
Hakpa, Centre Culturel français, Lagos, Nigeria
1995
El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1993
So Far: Drawings, Paintings, Prints 1963-1993, Institut Culturel Italyn, Lagos, Nigeria
1991
Old and New: Exhibition of Sculptures in Assorted Wood by El Anatsui, National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
1987
Venovize: Ceramic Sculpture by El Anatsui, Cornwall Colledge of Further & Higher Education, Redruth, United Kingdom
Pieces of Wood, Auditorium franco-germanique, Lagos, Nigeria
1982
Sculptures, Photographs, Drawings, Institut Goethe, Lagos, Nigeria
1980
Wood Carvings, Cummington Community of Arts, Cummington, USA
1979
Broken Pots: Sculpture by El Anatsui, Consulat britannique, Enugu, Nigeria et Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
1976
Wooden Wall Plaques by El Anatsui, Asele Art Gallery, Nsukka, Nigeria
MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE)
2022
Time is Out of Joint, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporeana, Rome, Italy
Nomadic Resonance, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Material Earth, Christie's London, London, United Kingdom
Benefit Print Project: 10 Years and Counting, The National Arts Club, New York, USA
Journeys Through the Tate Collection: The Port and Migrations, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Africa, Imagined: Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Art, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
2021
Debut Exhibition, Efie Gallery, Burj Plaza by EMAAR, United Arab Emirates
Diaspora at Home, KADIST, Paris, France
The African Art Series, BVLGARI Hotel, London, United Kingdom
Duende Art Projects: THREADS, Zwartzusters Monastery, Antwerp, Belgium
Summer Exhibition 2021, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Seeing the Invisible, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, Israel
SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space, Michigan Central Station, USA
Tomorrow is a Different Day, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Textures: A Print and Fiber Showcase, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, USA
Socle du Monde Biennale 2021: Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Nevers Ends, Saint John's Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
Portals, City Library (former Public Tobacco Factory), Athens, Greece
Invisible Sun, The Broad, Los Angeles, USA
The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
Gold and Magic, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark
First Look: Recent Acquisitions & Rarely Seen Gems, MW Gallery, Flint, Michigan, USA
A National Treasure: Fred Meijer, His Collection and Legacy, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Both Sides Now, project + gallery, Missouri, USA
The Met Unframed, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2020
The Nsukka Group: Cultural Abstraction, Kunstmatrix
Small World Real World, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art, Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery | Gallery 010, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
252nd Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Black Stories, Des Moines Art Center, USA
Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio, Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom
Re-Materialize, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Making the Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Creating Vital Space - 50 years of prints by Black Artists, Dolan / Maxwell, Philadelphia, USA
New Beginnings: the Epoch of African Art, Pure Lagos Gallery, Norfolk, USA
Myths, Martyrs, Monsters and Masterpieces, Everard Read Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa
Atmospheres: Artists of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
IMPART Collectors' Show 2020, School the Arts, Singapour
New to the Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Layers, Labanque, Béthune, France
2019
Ghana Pavilion (first participation), 58th Venice Biennale, Italy
Cire perdue, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Art Basel, Hong Kong 2019, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
Frieze New York, Randall’s Island Park, New York, USA
The Light Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Prête-moi ton Rêve, Maison de l’Union, Casablanca, Morocco
2018
African Metropolis. An Imaginary City. MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy
Ceremonial Exhibition: Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
BRAFA Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
Art Brussels 2018, Brussels, Belgium
Dak’Art Biennale 2018, Dakar, Senegal
Exhibition by the Masters, Mydrim Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Southbank VIC, Australia
250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Art Basel 2018, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Summer 2018, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, USA
Masterpiece London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, United Kingdom
Resignification, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Italy
Joburg Art Fair 2018, Sandton Convention Centre, Sandton, South Africa
MAD Collects: The Future of Craft Part 1, MAD, New-York, USA
All Things Being Equal…, Zeitz MOCAA, Le Cap, South Africa
Parking of Pavement, Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, New York, USA.
South South / Between Land and Sea: I don’t understand what you’re talking about but I know what you mean, Goodman Gallery, Le Cap, South Africa
Art Basel, Miami Beach 2018, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, USA
Investec: Cape Town, Le Cap, South Africa
Intimate Immensity, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
The Crime of Mr Adolf Loos, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium
Ex Africa: Storie e Identità di un’Arte Universale, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
Infinitive Mutability, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Second Life, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
Carnegie International, 57th Edition 2018, Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, USA
Deviations, Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2017
KIAF 2017, Art Seoul, Galerie RX, Seoul, South Korea
Afriques Capitales: Cape of Good Hope Here We Come, Lille 3000, Lille, France
Baku: Franz Ackermann, El Anatsui, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Wilson. Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
A Journey. El Anatsui, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Les Éclaireurs : Sculpteurs d’Afrique, Avignon, France
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Three Dimensions: Modern and Contemporary Approaches To Relief And Scluptures, Acquavellas Gallleries, New York, USA
Carnegies International 57th Edition, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
Domestic Alien, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan
El Anatsui: Meyina, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
La Terra Inquieta / The Restless Earth, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2016
African Artists as Innovators, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
The Woven Arc, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center Harvard
University, Cambridge, USA
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Center de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona,
Spain
Green Pastures: In Memory of Thornton Dial Sr., High Museum, Atlanta, USA
Ugwu, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Summer Exhibitions 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Art Basel Unlimited 2016, Basele, Switzerland
Of a Different Nature, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Marrakech Biennale 6: Not New Now, Marrakech, Morocco
El Anatsui, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Maya Lin: Of A Different Nature, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
2015
XiXe, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, USA
Re: Purposed, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State
University, Sarasota, USA
Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, USA
The Contemporary II: Who Interprets the World, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
247th Summer Edition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
Embracing Space and Color: Art On & Off the Wall, Vero Beach Museum of Art, USA
Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection, Galerie Cristin Tierney, New York, USA
Piece Work, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA
Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Atopolis: WIELS @ Mons 2015, Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium
Status Quo: The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Standing and Hanging, Galerie Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA
2014
Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, New-York, USA
The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
246th Summer Edition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2013
Boca Raton Museum of Art, USA
Chosen, 5 Beekman Street, New York, USA
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Masters of Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
ArtZuid 2013, Fondation ArtZuid, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
245th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Art and Textiles, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2012
1st Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summer Exhibition 2012, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (Facade of the Burlington House)
18ème Biennale de Sydney, Australia
Paris Triennial 2012, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
We Face Forward, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
Dialogues with Contemporary Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
African Cosmos: Stellar Art, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2011-2012
Environment and Object in Recent African Art, Skidmore College Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA (touring exhibition: Anderson Gallery, Virginia, Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, USA)
Architectural Environments for Tomorrow: New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2011
The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Hunters and Gatherers: The Art of Assemblage, Sotheby’s, New York, USA
Art It Is! Africa Applauded, The Mojo Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Splendour of Truth, the Beauty of Charity, Vatican, Rome, Italy
Africa Interweave: textile Diasporas, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, USA
ARS 11, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2010
A Collective Diary, an African Contemporary Journey, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
Who Knows Tomorrow, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Human Rites, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA
2009
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valence, Spain
Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Against Exclusion, 3ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Moscow, Russia
Homecoming, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana
Embrace!, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Intramoenia Extra Art: On the Ground, Underground, Château de Barletta, Barletta, Italy
Transavangarde, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008
Angaza Afrika, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
World Histories, Des Moines Art Center, USA
Masterpieces of Modern Design: Selections from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, USA
Art Basel 39, Basel, Switzerland
Recycling: The Whole House, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstenter, Hadmar, Norway
Grandeur, 10th Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition, Sonsbeek, The Netherlands
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design without End, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Sonsbeek 2008 : Grandeur, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Juego Africano de lo Contemporáneo : Pre-figuraciones Postcoloniales, MACUF, La Coruña, Spain
Prospect.1, New Orleans, USA
2007
Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
From Courage to Freedom: El Anatsui/Hazoumé/Owusu-Ankoma, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Contemporary African Art from the Collection of William Jones, Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Living Masters, Guaranty Trust Bank, Lagos, Nigeria
Trans Cape: Contemporary African Art on the Move, Cape Town, South Africa
Still Life: Art Ecology & Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates
Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy
Un/Fair Trade: The Art of Injustice, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Art, Newark, USA
Art for AIDS / Art Carte, Geneva, Switzerland
Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2006
The Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center of Arts, San Francisco, USA
Dak'Art 2006, 7ème Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, touring exhibition in the USA and in Japan
Body of Evidence, National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
Altered, Stitched and Gathered, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Poiesis, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Expanding Africa: New Art, New Directions, Newark Museum, Newark, USA
Afrique-Europe: Rêves Croisés, Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium
Triennal de Luanda, Angola
Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2005
Out There, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom
In the Making: Materials and Process, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
AKA... of Age 2005, Maison de France, Lagos, Nigeria
2004
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, touring exhibition (Museum Kunstpalast, Centre Pompidou, Moderna Museet...)
A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water, 5th Biennale de Gwangju, South Korea
Intelligence Now!, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2003
Selected Works, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA
Hommage to Asele, National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Villa Groppallo, Vado Liguire, Italy
Africa Informs, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Transfers, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2002
International 2002, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2001
Jazz and Visual Improvisations, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
News from the Front, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Africas: The Artist and the City, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
The Happy Face of Globalization, 1st Albissola Ceramics Biennale, Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea and Mueo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola, Italy
Ebony Soliloquy: A Five Year Retrospective, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, USA
Elf Village, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
2000
Encounters with the Contemporary, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
El Tiempo de Africa, Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands and Consejeria de Cultura de Comunidad, Madrid, Spain
Messagers de la Terre, Rur’Art-Espace d’Art Contemporain de Lycée Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouillé, France
1999
New Colours from Old Worlds: Contemporary Art from West Africa, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Les Champs de la Sculpture, Champs Élysées, Paris, France
The Independent, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1998
Riddle of the Spirits – Twelve African Artists, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA
By Hand and By Computer, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA
Osaka Triennale: Sculpture, Osaka, Japan
Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stuttgart, Germany
1997
The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Free Form and Precision, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA
1996
Africana, Sala 1, Rome, Italy
AKA ’96, Bona Gallery, Enugu, Nigeria
El Anatsui & Sol LeWitt, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA
Transforms, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
West African Sculpture-East African Painting, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA
Tranvangarde: Cutting-edge Work from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, October Gallery, New York, USA
Container ’96-Art across Oceans, Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark
Images of Africa, Torpedohallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Group Exhibition, Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria
1995
Art in the Shadow, Nigerian Pavilion, Africus: 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Uli Art-Master Works, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA
Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
An Inside Story: African Art of Our Time, touring exhibition in Japan
Osaka Triennale: Sculpture, Osaka, Japan
Contemporary African Art, World Intellectual Property Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
The Right to Hope, Johannesburg Art Gallery, then exposed in Cairo, à Amman, in Gaza, in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv
Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany
1994
AKA ’94, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
Arte/Sociedad/Reflexions, 5th Havana Biennale, Cuba
1993
AKA ’93, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
New Currents ’93: Avant-Garde Nigerian Art, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
Six African Artists, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1992
AKA ’92, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
Arte Amazonas, Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Bazil
Klima Global, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin; Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
1991
Works by a Group of African Artists, The World Bank Art Society, Washington, USA
AKA ’91, Bona Gallery, Enugu; National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
Sculptors Guild of Nigeria: Inaugural Exhibition, Murtala Mohammed Park, Enugu, Nigeria
El Desafio de Colonization, 4th Havana Biennale, Cuba
Il Sud del Mondo: L’altra arte contemporanea, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporaneo, Marsala, Italy
1990
Contemporary African Artists: Changing Tradition, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia; Chicago Public Library Center, Chicago, USA
AKA ’90, Hotel Presidential, Enugu; Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
Dimensione Futuro: l’Artista e lo Spazio, 44th Venice Biennale, Italy
The Calabash 1st Art Exhibition, The Calabash, Lagos, Nigeria
1989
AKA ’89, Hotel Presidential, Enugu; National Gallery of Art, Lagos, Nigeria
Zeitgenössische Nigerianische Kunst, Bonn, Bocholt et Mönchengladbach, Germany
1988
AKA ’88, a.o. National Gallery of Art, Lagos, Nigeria
SSART Exhibition, ANA Gallery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
An Exhibition of Sculptures in Wood: Thoughts and Process, Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
Walls and Gates, Avant Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria
1987
AKA ’87, Hotel Presidential, Enugu; National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria
1986
Nigerian-German Prints, University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria
AKA ’86, Inaugural exhibition of the AKA Circle of Exhibiting Artists, French Centre/Ministry of Education, Enugu; Goethe-Institute, Lagos Nigeria
1983
Four Contemporary Artists, Mintec Galleries, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
1982
Okiki 10th Anniversary Exhibition, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
1981
Drawing on the World, Bilingham Art Gallery, Billingham; Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough; House of Commons Gallery, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
1979
The Nsukka School, Art Gallery of the Rivers State Council for Arts and Culture, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Christian Arts in Nigeria, Holy Trinity Cathedral Hall, Onitsha, Nigeria
1975
Dyed Fabric Wallhangings, Burnt-Scorched Wooden Wall Plaques, Institute of African Studies Gallery, University of Nigeria.
1974
Tekarts Expo 5, Accra Arts Center, Accra, Ghana