Akosua Adoma Owusu
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Akosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1, 1984) is a
She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Early life and education
Owusu was born to Ghanaian parents and raised in an
Career
Shortly after graduating from CalArts in 2008, Owusu was a featured artist
In 2020, Owusu received the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists[14] bestowed by Film at Lincoln Center.[15]
Indiewire describes Owusu's shape-shifting film style:
Trafficking in the "complex contradictions" of blackness, displacement and
Her "warring consciousness" as she describes it, becomes the point of departure for her film Me broni ba (my white baby).[17] Using hair as a medium of culture, she examines African and African-American identities and ideologies in an effort to resolve their differences.[18] Ed Halter, one of the founders of Light Industry in Brooklyn, listed Me Broni Ba as one of 2010's top ten films in Artforum magazine.[19]
She has produced award-winning films including Reluctantly Queer (2016) and
Reluctantly Queer (2016)
In 2017, Owusu
Owusu said in a 2015 interview with South Africa's
In 2014, Akosua Adoma Owusu was one of the Executive Producers for Afronauts a science fiction short film written and directed by young Ghanaian filmmaker Nuotama Bodomo.[49]
In 2013, Owusu was nominated for Tribeca Film Institute's Heineken Affinity Award's $20,000 prize.[50]
In 2013, Owusu's film Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful (2012) received the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan.[51]
In 2011, Owusu participated as a member of the international jury at the
In 2011, Owusu exhibited work in Cusp: Works on Film & Video by Kevin Jerome Everson & Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Luggage Store Gallery. Called the "intimate and the ideal realization of the vision of a valuable genius",[53] this show included Revealing Roots, a silent re-enactment of one of the most dramatic scenes from Alex Haley's Roots (1977 miniseries) combining found footage and scenes that star Owusu and other African actors.[54]
An anthology of Owusu's work has been granted to Grasshopper Film LLC.[55]
She is represented by Farber Law LLC.
Her films are produced under her production company Obibini Pictures LLC.
Permanent collections
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Rex Cinema
In 2013, Owusu launched a global
International accomplishments
In 2015, Two films directed and produced by Owusu were critics' picks in Artforum magazine.[69]
Owusu's film Reluctantly Queer was one of critics' best films of 2016 in
In 2016, Owusu was named by Britain's Royal African Society as their Human of the Week and by South Africa's Elle (magazine) as one of 50 incredible women.[71]
In 2017, she was named in Dazed magazine as one of ten experimental filmmakers tackling the world's big topics.[72]
In 2018, Owusu was commissioned by the
Owusu was awarded an artist-in-residence by the
Owusu participated as a distinguished juror at the 57th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival and presented a special program dedicated to her body of work.[75]
In 2019, she led a workshop for filmmakers, critics and researchers on Triple Consciousness at Cinema Camp[76] an annual four-day long summer event organized by Meno Avilys Film Center based in Vilnius, Lithuania.[77]
Owusu's film White Afro. The film was subtitled in three central European languages.
Owusu's film Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us was one of critics' best films of 2019 in Sight & Sound magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).[81]
Selected exhibitions
- 2020: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight[82]
- 2019: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)[83]
- 2019: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts[84]
- 2019: Between Three Worlds: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at REDCAT[85]
- 2019: Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts[86]
- 2019: Sala de Video: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the São Paulo Museum of Art[87][88]
- 2019: Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond[89]
- 2019: Screening: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago[90]
- 2018: Triple Consciousness at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels;[91]
- 2018: African Twilight at the Bowers Museum;[92]
- 2018: Fragments of a Dream at the McNay Art Museum;[93]
- 2018: Screening and Conversation with Director Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Fowler Museum at UCLA;[94][95]
- 2017: Akosua Adoma Owusu and Bus Nut at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center;[96]
- 2016: Making Africa: Akosua Adoma Owusu at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona[97][98]
- 2016: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at Tabakalera[99]
- 2016: Encuentro con Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León[100]
- 2016: L'évènement Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Centre Georges Pompidou[101]
- 2016: Triple Consciousness at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[102][103]
- 2016: Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 at the
- 2015: Modern Mondays: An Evening with Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museum of Modern Art[106]
- 2015: Existential Crisis at the Rochester Art Center[107]
- 2015: America Is Hard to See at the
- 2015: The Art of Hair in Africa at the Fowler Museum at UCLA[110]
- 2015: Two Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at Art and Practice [111] in association with the Hammer Museum[112]
- 2015: Do/Tell at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia[113]
- 2014: Prospect.3: Notes for Now New Orleans Triennial[114]
- 2013: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Moderna Museet[115]
- 2012: Fore at the Studio Museum in Harlem[116]
- 2012: The Bearden Project at the Studio Museum in Harlem[117][118]
- 2011: VideoStudio: Changing Same at the Studio Museum in Harlem[119]
- 2011: Quadruple Consciousness at the Vox Populi (art gallery)[120]
- 2009: 30 Seconds Off an Inch at the Studio Museum in Harlem[121]
- 2009: Me Broni Ba at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight [122]
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Work | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2005 | Virginia Film Festival | Ajube Kete | Ken Jacobs Award for Best Experimental Short Film | Won | |
2008 | Berlin International Film Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Berlinale Talent Campus | Won | |
2008 | California Institute of the Arts | Good Hair | Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Grant
|
Won | |
2008 | Detroit Docs | Intermittent Delight | Most Progressive Filmmaker Award | Won | |
2008 | Mexico International Film Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Silver Palm Award | Won | |
2009 | Athens International Film and Video Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Best Documentary Short | Won | |
2009 | Chicago Underground Film Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Best Documentary Short | Won | |
2010 | Robert J. Flaherty Film Seminar | Work | Featured Artist | Won | |
2010 | Real Life Documentary Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Special Jury Mention, Best Short Film | Won | |
2011 | Black Maria Film Festival | Drexciya | Jury's Citation Prize | Won | |
2011 | African Film Festival, Tarifa | Drexciya | Special Jury Mention | Won | |
2011 | Expresión en Corto International Film Festival | Drexciya | Best Experimental Short | Won | |
2012 | Focus Features Africa First | Kwaku Ananse | Production Grant | Won | |
2012 | Creative Capital Foundation | Black Sunshine | Film/Video Grant | Won | |
2012 | Art Matters Foundation | Kwaku Ananse | Post-Production Grant | Won | |
2013 | Ann Arbor Film Festival | Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful | Most Promising Filmmaker Prize | Won | |
2013 | Berlin International Film Festival | Kwaku Ananse | Golden Bear Best Short Film | Nominated | |
2013 | Africa Movie Academy Award
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Kwaku Ananse | Best Short Film | Won | |
2013 | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma | Kwaku Ananse | Best Short Film of the Year | Won | |
2013 | Arte International Prize | Black Sunshine | Development Grant | Won | |
2013 | MacDowell Colony Fellowship
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Black Sunshine | Screenwriting Grant | Won | |
2014 | Berlin International Film Festival | Black Sunshine | Production Grant | Won | |
2015 | Association Cinémas et Cultures d'Afrique | Kwaku Ananse | Special Jury Mention | Won | |
2015 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Black Sunshine | Guggenheim Fellowship | Won | |
2015 | Tribeca Film Institute | Black Sunshine | Tribeca All Access Development Grant | Won | |
2016 | Berlin International Film Festival | Reluctantly Queer | Golden Bear for Best Short Film | Nominated | |
2016 | Berlin International Film Festival | Reluctantly Queer | Teddy Award for Best Short Film | Nominated | |
2016 | Baltimore International Black Film Festival | Reluctantly Queer | Audience Award for Best International Short Film | Won | |
2016 | The Camargo Foundation | Save the Rex | Travel Grant | Won | |
2017 | Africa Movie Academy Award
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On Monday of Last Week | Best Short Film | Nominated | |
2018 | Pratt Institute | On Monday of Last Week | Mellon Research Grant | Won | |
2018 | International Short Film Festival Oberhausen | Oberhausen Film Seminar | Featured Artist | Won | |
2018 | Goethe-Institut Vila Sul Salvador-Bahia | Black Sunshine | Artist-in-Residence | Won | |
2018 | Cobo Center Marquee Video Art Series
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Intermittent Delight | John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
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Won | |
2019 | Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts | Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle | The Westridge Foundation | Won |
Filmography
Filmography
Year | Film | Role |
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2005 | Ajube Kete | writer, director, producer, cinematographer |
2006 | Tea 4 Two | director, producer, cinematographer |
2007 | Intermittent Delight | director, producer, cinematographer |
2008 | Revealing Roots | actress, director, producer |
2008 | Boyant: A Michael Jordan in a Speedo is Far Beyond the Horizon | actress, producer |
2009 | Me Broni Ba | director, producer, cinematographer |
2010-11 | Drexciya | director, producer, cinematographer |
2012 | Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful | director, producer |
2013 | Kwaku Ananse | writer, director, producer |
2015 | Bus Nut | director, producer, cinematographer |
2016 | Reluctantly Queer | director, producer, cinematographer |
2017 | On Monday of Last Week | writer, director, producer |
2018 | Mahogany Too | director, producer, cinematographer |
2019 | Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us | director, producer, cinematographer |
2019 | White Afro | director, producer, cinematographer |
2020 | King of Sanwi | director, producer, cinematographer |
in production | Black Sunshine (feature film) | writer, director, producer |
Further reading
- Owusu, Akosua Adoma, and Adwoa Adu-Gyamfi. Me broni ba. New York, NY: Cinema Guild (2009).
- Baron, Jaimie. Inappropriate Bodies: Contemporary Filmmakers Challenging Gender Constructions through Appropriation. [1] UCLA Center for the Study of Women (2009).
- Birchall, Danny. Things Said Again (2010) Film Quarterly Volume 63, Issue 3, pg. 55-57
- Nelmes, Jill. Introduction to Film Studies (2012) [2]
- Dovey, Lindiwe. African Feminist Engagements with Film (2012) [3], p. 18-23.
- Mask, Mia, Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies (2012).
- Kendall, Nzingha, Commentary: Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films (2013). Black Camera
- Agyeman, Erica. Akosua Adoma Owusu: Exploring 'Threeness Archived 2021-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, The International Review of African American Art 24.3 (2013), 11–13.
- Prabhu, Anjali. Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora [4] (2014).
- Laderman, David. Sampling Media [5] (2014).
- UNESCO. Égalité des genres: patrimoine et créativité [6] (2014).
- Ellerson, Beti. Gaze Regimes: Film And Feminisms In Africa (2015) [7]
- Johnson, Elizabeth. Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas (2016) [8], p. 113.
- Kelly, Gabrielle. Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through (2018) [9]
- Lené Hole, Kristin. Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction [10] (2018).
- Bisschoff, Lizelle. Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic. [11] (2019).
- Nyeck, S.N. Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies [12] (2019).
- Williams, James S. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty [13] (2019).
- Dasilva, Dax. Age of Union: Igniting The Changemaker [14] (2020).
- Huberman, Anthony. Abbas to Yuki: Writing Alongside Exhibitions [15] (2020).
External links
- Official Website
- Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Internet Movie Database
- Akosua Adoma Owusu on MUBI
- Black women filmmakers
- Ghanaian Filmmakers
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