Senga Nengudi

Senga Nengudi has been working in sculpture and performance for over 50 years, and finally the global art world is catching up. Her signature pieces in nylon mesh and sand are suggestive yet insist on an expansiveness of signification.  Her early performances in Los Angeles in the 1970s were integral to the development of the art scene there, and engaged African and Asian performative modalities. Her work at the Woman’s Building changed understandings of feminism in the 1980s.  The recent re-engagement with her work has resulted in being included in the 2017 Venice Biennale, as well as the 2019 retrospective at the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich that will head to MASP in São Paulo, Brazil in late 2020.

Nengudi's works can be found in many notable private and institutional collections nationwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Whitney Museum of American Art (all New York); Brooklyn Museum; Hammer Museum, MoCA and LACMA (all Los Angeles); Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Hirshhorn Museum and National Gallery of Art (both Washington, DC); and the Baltimore Museum of Art. International institutions which have acquired Nengudi's work for their collections are Tate Modern, London; Musee National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich; and the Israel Museum of Art in Tel Aviv.