PORTOFOLIO 2016 ZAK OVÉ

PORTOFOLIO 2016 ZAK OVÉ

MOKO JUMBIE S 2015 The Great Court The British Museum

THE UPSETTERS 2013 Vintage stereo s, speakers, mic s, turntables. Cast Jesmonite masks King : H.255 W. 76.5 D. 52 CM Queen : H.255 W.76.5cm D. 55 CM Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection

AFRONAUT 2013 Circular saw blade, African mask, aircraft fuselage, plastic coral, doily, mixed media. H:182 X W: 92 X D: 30 CM

LA JABLESS 2013 Vintage mannequin, tree trunk, trumpets, rope from Thames river, antique mask collective detritus. H:220 X W:120 CM Michael Rosenfelt Collection

HAIRY MAN 2013 Beached rope from the River Thames Afro wigs, weaves, mop heads. H:246 X W:135 X D:48 CM Hadeel Ibrahim Collection

KING COLOBUS AND THE TIME THIEF 2008 Time Thief : Vintage mannequin, Dan Mask, whips, bowler Hat, straight Razors, spinal columns whistles, vintage toys, collective detritus. H: 200 X W: 70 X D: 60 CM King Colobus: Cask vintage monkey, watches, machete, mixed media. H:102 X 90 X D: 40 CM David Kowits Collection

NUBIAN RETURN 2013 Aircraft fuselage, Rootstein mannequin, electrical panels, telephone booth, mixed media. H:330 X W:220 X D:40 CM Toby Clarke Collection

LOST SOUL - HERITANCE 2011 Vintage mannequin, aeroplane wings, horses skull, flying goggles, mixed media. H: 185 X W: 160 X D: 50 CM

ELEPHANT WALK 2011 Marine ply wood, coated in bitumen and metal filings, copper sheet. Tree trunk head. H: 350 X W: 450 X D: 202 cm 3D Sculpture Park Verbier Switzerland

Time Tunnel 2013 Seven rusted steel box frame clock faces, inch thick brass numerals, hand blown stain glass. H: 200 X W: 600 cm GLASSTRESS: White Light / White Heat, Collateral event of the 55th International Art Exhibition La Biennale Venice, VeniceBiennale, Hadeel Ibrahim Collection

THE INVISIBLE MAN 2009 Mixed Media, Wood, Fiberglass and Resin H: 127 X W: 32 X D: 18 cm Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection

Psychadelic sailor1 2013 Mixed Media on canvas H: 160 x W: 106 cm

DP1 2015 Crochet work on Hessian backed ply H: 181 x W: 122 cm Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection

Ové works between sculpture, film, painting, and photography, often collaging the various elements using found, cast and recovered materials. Ové finds inspiration in Trinidadian and African Diasposic legends and folklaw. He is interested in reinterpreting lost culture and mythology using modern and antique materials, paying tribute to both spiritual and artistic African and Trinidadian identities which have been given new meaning through carnival and the cross cultural dispersion of ideas. A constant theme throughout his work is the emancipation of personal existence through incarnation with an other self, showing us the power of play to free an individual from the contained experience of one s identity. This idea is filtered through his own personal and cultural upbringing, growing up between London and Trinidad with a black Trinidadian father and white Irish mother. A filmmaker, photographer and music video director earlier in his career, Ové has had solo shows at Vigo, The Fine Art Society, The Freies Museum (Berlin) and has participated in international museum shows from Dakar to Paris, Dubai, Prague, Berlin, Bamako and New York. Last year he had an exhibition of his Moko Jumbie sculptures in the British Museum s Grand Court with the museum purchasing both figures for the Africa Galleries permanent collection. He is the first artist of Caribbean heritage to have this honour and will sit alongside El Salahi and El Anatsui. Born 1966, London Lives and works in London and Trinidad EDUCATION Graduated 1987, Film as Fine Art BA, St. Martin s School of Art, London FUTURE EXHIBITIONS 2016 Double Dutch, NAGB, Bahamas 2016 National Gallery, Cayman Islands 2016 Vigo Gallery, Art Dubais Contemporary, Dubais (March) 2016 Vigo Gallery, London Art Fair, London (January ) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Celebrating Africa, British Museum, London 2013-2014 Speaker, Vigo Gallery, London 2010 Twice Is Too Much, The Freies Museum, Berlin 2010 Past Future, Fine Art Society, London 2009 Blue Devils, Real Art Ways Museum, Connecticut 2008 Black & White Nudes, Carte Blanche Gallery, London GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London 2014 ART14, London (February - March) 2014 House of Barnabas, London (March) 2014 Lagos Photo Festival (October ) 2013-2014: Chaos Into Clarity: Re-Possessing a Funktioning Utopia, Sharjah Art Foundation, Dubai 2013 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London 2013 Glasstress: White Light / White Heat, Venice Biennale, Venice 2012 Vigo Gallery, London Art Fair, London 2012 Ululation, Vigo Gallery, London 2012 London Twelve, City of Prague Museum. Czech Republic 2012 New Re-Visions, House of The Nobleman, London 2012 The Future Can Wait - Charlie Smith, London 2012 British, Vigo Gallery, London 2012 Vigo Gallery, London Art Fair, London 2012 Voices of Home, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York 2011 The Return Of The House Of The Nobleman, The House of the Nobleman, London 2011 Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Texas contemporary fair, Houston 2011 LA Platform, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Los Angeles 2011 Sculpture today - New Forces New Forms, Frederik Meijer Sculpture Park, Michigan 2011 Carnaval and Masquerade, Musee Dapper, Paris 2011 The Minotaur, Lazarides Gallery, Old Vic Tunnels, London 2011 Go Tell it To The Mountain, 3D Sculpture Park, Verbier, Switzerland 2011 Africa See You See me, Li Space, Beijing 2011 Stephen Burks Are You A Hybrid, Museum of Art and Design, New York 2011 Encounters of Bamako, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 2011 Fine Arts Society, Volta NY, New York 2011 Fine Art Society, London Art Fair, London 2011 Africa: See You, See Me, Fondazione Studio Maragoni, Florence 2011 Africa: See You, See Me, Officine Fotografiche, Rome 2010 Fesman 2010: World Festival of Black Arts, Dakar, Senegal 2010 Encounters Of Bamako, B-Gallery European centre for contempory Art, Brussels 2010 Hell s Half Acre, Lazarides Gallery, London 2010 Encounters of Bamako, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg 2010 We Are Not Witches, The Saatchi Gallery, London 2010 Encounters of Bamako, South African National Gallery, Cape Town 2010 Africa: See You, See Me, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon 2010 Tough Love, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon 2010 Encounters of Bamako, Panafrican Exhibition tour, Foto Museum, Antwerp 2009 Rockstone and Bootheel, Real Art Ways, Connecticut 2009 Encounters of Bamako, Panafrican Exhibition, National Museum, Bamako, Mali 2009 Encomium, Fine Art Society, London SELECTED DIRECTED FILMS 2010 A Land So Far, film installation, Afrodizzia, by Chris Ofili, Tate Britain, London 2002 I Have A Dream, Independent Short Film 2002 Wonderful World, PSA short film for the Anti Racist Alliance campaign, UK national cinema 2002 Guinness campaign, Cinema, TV and Print, featuring Lee Scratch Perry, Ireland AWARDS 2003 Milan African Film Festival, Italy: Cinit Award, Best Short Film 2002 Black Film & TV Awards, UK: Best Short Film /Best Short Film Director /Best New Talent 2002 SoHo Images, UK: Best Short Film RESIDENCIES 2011 The 3D Foundation, Sculpture Residency, Verbier, Switzerland 2007 Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Trinidad: sponsored by the A. Warhol Foundation, New York PUBLICATIONS Michket Krifa and Laura Serani, Encounters of Bamako 9: The African Photography Biennial, 2009, Paris SCREENINGS AND FILM FESTIVALS 2013 Cutlog, New York 2005 Peter Doig s Studio Film Club, Ludvig Museum, Cologne 2005 Peter Doig s Studio Film Club, Kunsthal Museum, Zurich 2004 Peter Doig s Studio Film Club, Trinidad 2003 Africa in the Picture, Amsterdam 2003 African Film Festival, New York 2002 BFM Short Film Festival, London 2003 UK Melvin Van Peebles Festival, San Francisco 2003 Milan African Film Festival, Milan 2002 Toronto Film Festival, Toronto 2002 Venice Film Festival, Venice

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