Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Arts: Art & Global Equity
College of the Arts, School of Art & Art History
Email: fatimahtuggar@ufl.edu
Phone: 352.392.0201
Areas of Specialization: Visual Art, Technology, Theoretical & Critical Studies of Art Practice, Institutions and Cultures
Interdisciplinary artist Fatimah Tuggar was born in Nigeria and raised there and in the UK. She interrogates the impact of technologies through imaginative, adaptive strategies, culture jamming and resisting.
Tuggar’s art education covers three continents and a broader range of disciplines, traditions, processes, and materials. Her work has been the subject of various panels and articles. Her body of work has also been integrated as part of academic curricula in multiple disciplines and discussions.
Her work has been widely exhibited internationally. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Creative Arts and W. A. Mellon Research Fellowships. Tuggar was awarded Prix Special du Jury at Les Rencontres in Bamako, Mali and the Young with FIA Award in Caracas, Venezuela, among other accolades. She is an Associate Professor of AI in the Arts at the University of Florida.
HER WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING SELECTED WRITINGS
Books & Chapters:
African Artists: From 1882 to Now (edited by Chika Okeke-Agulu & Joseph L. Underwood), New York: Phaidon Press, November 17, 2021.
Historia da Arte, 18th ed. (edited by Graça Proença), São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Ática, 2020.
“Knowledges, On Challenging Form & Anecdote from Academe: Inclusivity & Irrational Fears” in Inquires (edited by Joey Orr), Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI), Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, pp. 122-127, 2019.
Fatimah Tuggar: Home’s Horizons (edited by Amanda Gilvin), Munich: Hirmer, 2019.
Photography, History, Difference (edited by Tanya Sheehan, Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, pp. 84-85, 98, 2014.
“Semiotics: A Visual Exploration of Signifiers, Meaning, Processes & Materials,” in 72 Assignments: The Foundation Course in Art and Design Today, A Practical Source Book for Teachers Students, & Anyone Curious to Try (edited by Chloe Briggs), Paris: Paris College of Art Press, 2013.
“Visible Seams: The Media Art of Fatimah Tuggar” in Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, Nicole R. Fleetwood, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 177, 2011.
Gendered Bodies and New Technologies: Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era, Amanda du Preez, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, text by Isolde Brielmaier, London: Phaidon, London, 2006.
“Fatimah Tuggar,” in Cream 3, Contemporary Art in Culture, Nancy Spector, London: Phaidon Limited, 2003.
Journals:
Tuggar, Fatimah, “Methods, Making, and West African Influences in the Work of Fatimah Tuggar,” African Arts: Winter 2017, Volume 50(4), 2018.
John Keene, “The Work of Black Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibilit,” Obsidian Journal: Literature in the African Diaspora, Issue 41, 2015, p. 288.
Fatimah Tuggar, “Montage as a Tool of Political Visual Realignment,” in The Ethics of Images, Special Issue, edited by Bolette Blaagaard & Carey Jewit, Visual Communications Journal, August 2013, pp. 375–392.
Fatimah Tuggar, Online “Virtual Issue,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2012.
Yates McKee, “The Politics of the Plane: On Fatimah Tuggar’s Working Woman,” Visual Anthropology, 19(5), October-December 2006, p. 417.
Periodicals, Radio & Television:
“Open Studio reboot: Artists who are exploring how technology touches our everyday lives,” Jared Bowen, WGBH News, Boston PBS Television, May 26, 2022.
“Fatimah Tuggar: Not Reactive, But Curious,” conversation with Enos Nyamor, Contemporary And (C&), Berlin, Africa2020 Season, June 11, 2021.
“Nigerian Artist Questions Technology and Women’s Roles in New Exhibit,” Celina Colby, Exhale Life Style, October 29, 2019.
Open Studio with Jared Bowen, “Artist Fatimah Tuggar and Musician Chadwick Stokes,” Session 8, Episode 13, WGBH Boston PBS Television, October 11, 2019.
“Fatimah Tuggar Home’s Horizons” interview with Amanda Gilvin, NewTV, December 19, 2019.
“We Asked Three of the Art World’s Most Plugged-In Young Women What They Can’t Wait to See (and Read) This Fall,” Katie White, Comments: Brinda Kumar, Assistant Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artnet News, Artworld, August 16, 2019.
“Exploration and Curiosities: Reflections of Fatimah Tuggar,” Nell Porter Brown, Harvard Magazine, November-December 2019.
The Space TV Show, Daria Media, Lagos, Nigeria, 2018.
“Davis Museum receives Warhol grant for exhibition on Fatimah Tuggar,” Art Daily, 2017.
“The Bascom in Highlands, NC, Goes Postmodern for Spring 2015,” Carolina Arts, A Publication Covering the Visual Arts in the Carolinas, Vol. 19(4), April 2015.
Interview with Fatimah Tuggar, OCAD’s Site-Specific Guest Blog Series, Olya Levina & Shamina Chherawala, Toronto: OCAD University, 2014.
“Concourse Collages,” Carol Vogel, New York Times, October 17, 2008.
“Muse,” Bloomberg TV, October 6, 2008.
“Fatimah Tuggar’s Imag(in)ing of Contemporary Africa,” Art Papers, Digital Trafficking, Sylvie Fortin, pp. 24–29, March/April 2005.
“Perhaps some of these artists should quit,” Karen Wilkin, The Wall Street Journal, p. D4, August 4, 2004.
“Fatimah Tuggar,” Marie Luise Knott, Le Monde Diplomatique (German edition) pp. 1, 2, 3, 8, 10, 11, July 2004.
“Die Kunst der Zukunft [Curator’s Choice],” Angelika Janßen, Lufthansa Magazine, pp. 48-56, August 2003.
“Gestileerde Proteskunst uit Afrika,” Bert Popelier, De Financieel Economische TIDJ, p. 8, June 25, 2003.
“Critical Perspective on Arts, Politics & Culture, Empire/State: Artists Engaging Globalization,” Mariana Lefas-Tetenes, The Brooklyn Rail, August 2002.
“Fatimah Tuggar at Greene Nafaali,” Carol Kino, Art in America, pp. 155-156, September 2001.
“Fatimah Tuggar,” Franklin Sirmans, Time Out New York, p. 63, December 28-January 4, 2000.
“Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Contemporary Art Exhibitions,” Zabel & Valerie Cassel, Art Journal, Issue 59(1), pp. 4-21, 2000.
“Istanbul and the Biennial Paradigm,” C.M. Robert, NY Arts, Vol. 4(12), pp. 14-15, 1999.
“Reading Tuggar’s Village Spells,” Gary Sullivan, Plexus.org, Summer 1998.
Selected Public Collections:
Altoids, the Curiously Strong Collection at New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Diehl Vorderwuelbecke Collection, Berlin
Galeria Joao Graça Collection, Lisbon
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City
RX Art Collection, New York
New York School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
The Kitchen, New York
The Network for Women’s Services, Washington, DC
The Pisces Trust Collection, Geneva
The Pérez Art Museum, Miami
The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, Connecticut
University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark
University of South Florida at Tampa
Weil, Gotshal & Mannes Collection, New York