Exhibitions

2010

Environment and object Recent African Art Tang Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College USA

BM Treasures exhibition, Madrid

Relative Pelican: an installation of steel sculptures, Stux Gallery, New York (solo)

2009

Pain and Paradise, ARTCO Gallery, Germany (solo)

Islands and their Worlds, Parc La Villete, Paris, France

2008

The Essential art of African textiles:Design without end, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Strength of Feeling, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (solo)

2007

Resistance and Remembrance 1807-2007, The British Museum, London (solo)

2006

Sweeping, Camberwell College of Arts, London (solo)

Afrika! Afrika! Berlin, Germany

‘Kijken zonder grenzen’, Hedendaagse Kunst in het Afrika, Museum de collectie Valt en verder, Afrika Museum, Belgium

2005

11th Commandment Sculpture Tour (solo)

‘Black President’ The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2004

‘Africa Screams’, Iwalewa-Haus, Univerisity of Bayreuth, Germany

Galerie Peter Herrmann, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2003

‘Independence’, South London Gallery

2002

The Bridge, The Morley Gallery, London

Imagined Steel, The Lowry Arts Centre, Manchester (solo)

2001

The Artist and the City, Centre de Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain

Knots of the Human Heart, Morley Gallery, London (solo)

2000

Transatlantic Dialogues, Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa, Auckland

The Shape of the Century, Salisbury Festival, Salisbury

1999

National Museum of African Art (solo)

1998

Around and Around Europe, Africa and USA, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Germany

Devious Devices, an Exhibition of Automata, Croydon Clocktower, London

Spirits in Steel, The Art of the Kalabari Masquerade, American Museum of Natural History, New York (solo)

1997

Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba

National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

1996

Die Andere Reise (The Other Journey), Kunste Hallie Krems, Austria

Steel Stories, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (solo)

1995

Play and Display, Museum of Mankind, British Museum, London (solo)

‘An Inside Story’ African Art of our Time, Setegaya Art Museum, Tokyo

Urban Walk, Barbican Centre, London (solo)

Another Country, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

1994

Figure and Fantasy Sculpture, Canterbury, Kent

1993

Steel Clothes and Ornamentation, Redfern Gallery, London (solo)

Sculpture 1993, Chelsea Harbour, London

Contemporary Art Society Market, London

1992

Urban Women, South Bank Centre, London (solo)

1991

Market People, Chelsea Arts Club, London (solo)

Africa Explores, New and renewed forms in 20th Century African Art, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York

1990

Rainforest Festival, The Arts for the Earth Exhibition, Barbican Centre, London

New Work, Sue Williams, London (solo)

1988

Echoes of the Kalabari, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA (solo)