PHOTOGRAPHER GEORGE OSODI
George Osodi, is a Nigerian photographer based in Lagos.
He studied Business Administration at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos, before working as a photojournalist for the then defunct Comet Newspaper Lagos from 1999-2001. He joined the Associated Press News Agency Lagos in 2001-2008.
Osodi has covered many assignments for both local and international organisations, with his photographs published in many international and local media such as the “New York
Times,” “Time Magazine,” the “Guardian of London,” “The Telegraph,” “USA Today,” the “International Herald Tribune,” CNN, BBC Focus on Africa Magazine and many more.
He has also been commissioned on photo project by several organisations worldwide and he is a member of Panos Pictures U.K, and he is managed by Zphotographic ltd U.K.
George Osodi has also exhibited his works worldwide with his
works in the collections of:
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Neue Galerie
Martin Marguiles Collection- Miami
EMET- National Museum of Greece 2010
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, 2010
ADF collection Paris 2011
Smithsonian museums New York USA. 2011
And number of private collections.
Solo exhibitions (Selection):
TOURING PROGRAM of Oil Rich N&N to art galleries in Norway 2010 and 2011
OIL RICH NIGER DELTA: RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal 2011
OIL RICH NIGER DELTA: Recontres de Bamako, Mali, 2011
GEORGE OSODI: Galerie Peter Hermann, Berlin 2009
DRIVERS DEXTERITY: AAF Lagos, Nigeria, 2009
OIL RICH NIGER DELTA: Haugesund, Norway 2008
PARADISE LOST: Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, (CCA), 2008
LAGOS UNCELEBRATED: Goethe Institut Lagos, 2007
BEYOND OIL:London Rising Tide, 2004
LIVING THE HIGHLIFE: British Council and Nimbus Art Centre, Lagos, 2004
A CHILD OF INDEPENDENCE: Nimbus Art Centre, Lagos, 2003
NIGER DELTA CHRONICLES: Nimbus Art Centre, Lagos, 2003
Group exhibitions (Selection):
ENVIRONMENT AND OBJECT_PRESENT AFRICAN ART: Tang Museum Skidemore Collage, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA- 2011
NIGERIA, OUR NIGERIA: Presidential Inauguration exhibit, Abuja, Nigeria 2011
ENVIORNMENT AND OBJECT- PRESENT AFRICAN ART – VCUARTS- ANDERSON GALLERY Virginia, USA- 2011
“ GHANA GOLD- DE MONEY”- 6th CURITIBA BIENNIAL, Curitiba, Brazil – 2011
The OUTSKIRT OF THE WORLD: Io Donna – Corriere della Sera,Italy. 2011
DONT/PANIC:The Goethe-Institut South Africa and the Heinrich-BoIL Foundation, Durban Art Gallery South Africa. 2011
OIL SHOW: Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund, Germany- 2011-2012
INCLEMENCIA DEL TEMPO: Uruguay 2010
ATOPIA: CCCB -Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona- 2010
BOZAR: Belgium 2010
UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIES: NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY, UK- 2010
UNWETTER: Akademie Kunste- Berlin- 2010
IN-BETWEEN THINGS: (SMBA) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 2010
AFRICA SEE YOU SEE ME: Museu di Cidade, Lisboa Portugal. 2010
INCLEMENCIA-: Cenre d’art le Lait, Albi, France – 2010
MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 2010
HELLS HALF ACRE: LAZARIDES/ OLD VIC TUNNELS- LONDON 2010
POLITICS OF ART- 10th anniversary of EMET- ATHENS GREECE 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Contemporary Art from Africa and Middle East, Modena, Italy 2010
AFRIKA IN OSLO: National Museum of Contemporary Art , Olso Norway 2009
INTEMPERIES: Oca, Sao Paulo , Brazil , 2009
BIENAL DEL FIN DEL MUNDO Argentina 2009
SCIENCE OF 5 CONTINENTS: Gallery BMB Mumbai, India 2009
AFRICA FAST FORWARD: Belgium 2009
DELTA: Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria 2009
TEMPESTADE: Brazil 2009
RECONTRES de BAMAKO 2009
Lagos Art Intervention in Public Space , In God We Trust Goethe-Institut , Nigeria 2008
PETRODOLLART: GALARIE MOTTE ET ROUART, PARIS 2008
FRAGILE DEMOCRACY: NORTHERN GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UK, 2008
NIGERIA OIL RICH NIGER DELTA: DOCUMENTA 12, KASSEL , GERMANY, 2007
BEYOND THE SURFACE: EX- en -Province France 2007
NIGERIA EVICTION, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL,: ABUJA/LONDON 2006
Lagos Stadtansichten, IFA, Berlin, GERMANY, 2004
LAGOS BOMB BLAST: MUSON CENTRE LAGOS, 2002
Prizes (Selection):
Sony WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS- short listed TOP 10 in the Contemporary
Issues Category- De Money- Ghana Gold series- 2010
FIRST PRIZE, FUJI AFRICAN PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR 2004 (Categories
Features and Portfolio)
UN Special Court for Sierra Leone
Pool photography of former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s first
court trial in April 3, 2006
Nominee Prix Pictet Photography prize 2008.
Talks:
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, Newport. 2011
HOST GALLERY London U.K 2011
Recontres de Bamako, Mali, 2011
Tang Museum, Skidmore Collage, Saratoga Springs, New York US 2011
SITAC – Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory, Mexico City, Mexico 2011
Faculty of Arts, Columbia University New York, U.S.A 2011
Emet, Athens , Greece, 2010
Borders-Imaged Imagined,Market Photo workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2010
Bodo, Norway 2010
Nottingham Contemporary 2010
Forum Stadpark Symposium , Graz, Austria 2009
Gallery Peter Hermann, Berlin 2009
National Museum of Contemporary Art , Oslo, Norway 2009
Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF WALES NEWPORT UK, 2005
George Osodi, is a Nigerian photographer based in Lagos.
He studied Business Administration at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos, before working as a photojournalist for the then defunct Comet Newspaper Lagos from 1999-2001. He joined the Associated Press News Agency Lagos in 2001-2008.
Osodi has covered many assignments for both local and international organisations, with his photographs published in many international and local media such as the “New York
Times,” “Time Magazine,” the “Guardian of London,” “The Telegraph,” “USA Today,” the “International Herald Tribune,” CNN, BBC Focus on Africa Magazine and many more.
He has also been commissioned on photo project by several organisations worldwide and he is a member of Panos Pictures U.K, and he is managed by Zphotographic ltd U.K.
George Osodi has also exhibited his works worldwide with his
works in the collections of:
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Neue Galerie
Martin Marguiles Collection- Miami
EMET- National Museum of Greece 2010
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, 2010
ADF collection Paris 2011
Smithsonian museums New York USA. 2011
And number of private collections.
Solo exhibitions (Selection):
TOURING PROGRAM of Oil Rich N&N to art galleries in Norway 2010 and 2011
OIL RICH NIGER DELTA: RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal 2011
OIL RICH NIGER DELTA: Recontres de Bamako, Mali, 2011
GEORGE OSODI: Galerie Peter Hermann, Berlin 2009
DRIVERS DEXTERITY: AAF Lagos, Nigeria, 2009
OIL RICH NIGER DELTA: Haugesund, Norway 2008
PARADISE LOST: Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, (CCA), 2008
LAGOS UNCELEBRATED: Goethe Institut Lagos, 2007
BEYOND OIL:London Rising Tide, 2004
LIVING THE HIGHLIFE: British Council and Nimbus Art Centre, Lagos, 2004
A CHILD OF INDEPENDENCE: Nimbus Art Centre, Lagos, 2003
NIGER DELTA CHRONICLES: Nimbus Art Centre, Lagos, 2003
Group exhibitions (Selection):
ENVIRONMENT AND OBJECT_PRESENT AFRICAN ART: Tang Museum Skidemore Collage, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA- 2011
NIGERIA, OUR NIGERIA: Presidential Inauguration exhibit, Abuja, Nigeria 2011
ENVIORNMENT AND OBJECT- PRESENT AFRICAN ART – VCUARTS- ANDERSON GALLERY Virginia, USA- 2011
“ GHANA GOLD- DE MONEY”- 6th CURITIBA BIENNIAL, Curitiba, Brazil – 2011
The OUTSKIRT OF THE WORLD: Io Donna – Corriere della Sera,Italy. 2011
DONT/PANIC:The Goethe-Institut South Africa and the Heinrich-BoIL Foundation, Durban Art Gallery South Africa. 2011
OIL SHOW: Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund, Germany- 2011-2012
INCLEMENCIA DEL TEMPO: Uruguay 2010
ATOPIA: CCCB -Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona- 2010
BOZAR: Belgium 2010
UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIES: NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY, UK- 2010
UNWETTER: Akademie Kunste- Berlin- 2010
IN-BETWEEN THINGS: (SMBA) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 2010
AFRICA SEE YOU SEE ME: Museu di Cidade, Lisboa Portugal. 2010
INCLEMENCIA-: Cenre d’art le Lait, Albi, France – 2010
MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 2010
HELLS HALF ACRE: LAZARIDES/ OLD VIC TUNNELS- LONDON 2010
POLITICS OF ART- 10th anniversary of EMET- ATHENS GREECE 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Contemporary Art from Africa and Middle East, Modena, Italy 2010
AFRIKA IN OSLO: National Museum of Contemporary Art , Olso Norway 2009
INTEMPERIES: Oca, Sao Paulo , Brazil , 2009
BIENAL DEL FIN DEL MUNDO Argentina 2009
SCIENCE OF 5 CONTINENTS: Gallery BMB Mumbai, India 2009
AFRICA FAST FORWARD: Belgium 2009
DELTA: Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria 2009
TEMPESTADE: Brazil 2009
RECONTRES de BAMAKO 2009
Lagos Art Intervention in Public Space , In God We Trust Goethe-Institut , Nigeria 2008
PETRODOLLART: GALARIE MOTTE ET ROUART, PARIS 2008
FRAGILE DEMOCRACY: NORTHERN GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UK, 2008
NIGERIA OIL RICH NIGER DELTA: DOCUMENTA 12, KASSEL , GERMANY, 2007
BEYOND THE SURFACE: EX- en -Province France 2007
NIGERIA EVICTION, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL,: ABUJA/LONDON 2006
Lagos Stadtansichten, IFA, Berlin, GERMANY, 2004
LAGOS BOMB BLAST: MUSON CENTRE LAGOS, 2002
Prizes (Selection):
Sony WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS- short listed TOP 10 in the Contemporary
Issues Category- De Money- Ghana Gold series- 2010
FIRST PRIZE, FUJI AFRICAN PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR 2004 (Categories
Features and Portfolio)
UN Special Court for Sierra Leone
Pool photography of former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s first
court trial in April 3, 2006
Nominee Prix Pictet Photography prize 2008.
Talks:
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, Newport. 2011
HOST GALLERY London U.K 2011
Recontres de Bamako, Mali, 2011
Tang Museum, Skidmore Collage, Saratoga Springs, New York US 2011
SITAC – Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory, Mexico City, Mexico 2011
Faculty of Arts, Columbia University New York, U.S.A 2011
Emet, Athens , Greece, 2010
Borders-Imaged Imagined,Market Photo workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2010
Bodo, Norway 2010
Nottingham Contemporary 2010
Forum Stadpark Symposium , Graz, Austria 2009
Gallery Peter Hermann, Berlin 2009
National Museum of Contemporary Art , Oslo, Norway 2009
Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF WALES NEWPORT UK, 2005