Wura-Natasha Ogunji Past Lives Year 2024 Medium Thread, ink, acrylic, and collage on paper Dimensions 26.8 x 26.2 cm Nominated by Osei Bonsu About the work My practice includes drawing, painting and performance art. The drawings are most often comprised of hand-stitching on tracing paper–here, the collaged faces. Over the years, I have been deeply interested in the Atlantic ocean as a site of history, memory, landscape. Date and country of birth 1970, NG> Career Highlights Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s works are in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, among others. Recent exhibitions include ‘lalala ha!’ at Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos (2023) and ‘A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography’ at Tate Modern (2024). Ogunji is a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation; The Dallas Museum of Art; and the Idea Fund. She resides in Lagos where she is founder of the experimental art space The Treehouse.