past exhibitions : the photography of iké udé

Iké Udé:
Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Iké Udé

February 24 - April 13, 2000


This exhibition, with accompanying catalog published by MIT Press, of Iké Udé, a Nigerian born artist, living and working in New York City will be the first comprehensive look at his critical photographic work. The exhibition and catalog will illustrate how Iké Udé's art epitomizes a "post-nationalist" agenda, and, in so doing reveals questions concerning the circulation and reception of contemporary art. It will also map out Udé's interest in "deceptive appearances" as seen through his intervention into the production and circulation of race and gender as spectacle in popular visual culture as well as the influence of the artist's significant art and fashion magazine aRUDE which is strategically positioned within the ever disappearing folds between contemporary art and fashion.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 2, 5-7 PM

Exhibition will travel to OBORO, Montreal, Canada and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The exhibition and catalog were funded, in part, by The Peter Norton Family Foundation, Robert Crane and the Helm Family.


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