Cedric Akue, Artist

CEDRIC AKUE

Lives and works in Houston, Texas
Language Expertise: English, French

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022 Wings - Hosted by Sean Anthony Salons
Group Show, Curated by Suzanne Buckland

2019 International Conventions "Love Never fails!" - Houston, TX
Rosenberg AH Art Department - Gallery - Workshops - Murals

2018 Artwork Blow Out - Spectra Artist, Inc.
Group Show hosted by Eliana's Salon

Fabulous Florals - Sugar Land Texas
Group Show by Buckland Gallery & Studio

Jomar Visions Spring Festival
Group Show Co-curated by Mark Roden and Joana Esteves

2017 Simply Stunning - Hosted by Sean Anthony Salons
Group Show by Creative Energy Art Center

Fame: Portraits - Houston Energy Corridor
Group Show by Creative Energy Art Center

WASH - Watercolor Art Society - Houston
Group Show, Juror: Mary Glover Rustay

Creative Energy Art Center - Houston Texas
NXTGEN Group Show, Curated by Suzanne Buckland

2016 The Gallery At 600 W. Gray - Houston Texas
Group Show, Curated by Gordon Greenleaf

St. Luke's Rotunda Gallery - Houston Texas
Group Show, Curated by Suzanne Buckland

WASH - Watercolor Art Society - Houston
Group Show, Juror: Ken Mazzu, faculty at The Glassell School of Art

NASA - Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center/ Gilruth Center
Group Show, Curated by Julio L. Ramirez

Spring Juried Art Exhibit
Group Show, Juror: Joshua Fischer, curator at Rice Gallery

Jomar Visions Gallery
Group Show, Curated by Joana Esteves

Showcase Window at Spectra Gallery
Group Show, Curated by Suzanne Buckland

2015 Spectra Gallery, Memorial City Mall
Group Show, Curated by Suzanne Buckland

2014 F.A.M.E Project, Creative non-profit, Houston Texas
Group Show, Curated by Katrina Wheeler

African Art Center, Museum District, Houston Texas
Group Show, Curated by Sulayman M. Jarra

Annual Houston's Urban Art Festival
Group Show, Curated by Cynthia Alvarado

Spring Juried Art Exhibit
Group Show, Juror: Molly Brauhn

2013 Annual Houston's Urban Art Festival
Group Show, Curated by Corey Ackelmire

Spring Juried Art Exhibit
Group Show, Juror: David Brown

2011 The Gallery at River Oaks
Group Show, featuring "Body Work" by John Bernhard.

2008 Museum of Fine Arts of Houston
Five-A 12th Annual Citywide African American Art Exhibition
Curated by Tapscott M'kina

Rice University Art Gallery
Curated by Tapscott M'kina

Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston
Curated by Tapscott M'kina

2006 HCC Central Art Gallery
Curated by Michael Golden
Fine Arts Department

SELECTED VISITS / PANELS / ART FAIRS

2022 October - The Starrett-Lehigh Building - Chelsea|New York City
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure
Presented by the Family of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sir David Adjaye OBE - Exhibition Designer

2019 February - Moody Center for The Arts - Rice University
Michel Blazy: We Were the Robots
Natasha Bowdoin: Sideways to the Sun
Momoko Seto: Planet ∞ (2017)

2018 November - Menil Drawing Institute - Houston, Texas
The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Jones
Lawndale Art Center - Houston, Texas
Lovie Olivia: Tuft & Facet
The Menil Collection - Houston, Texas
Encountering Art from Africa - An Introduction
Contemporary Focus - Leslie Hewitt
Collection Close-Up - Claes Oldenburg and the Geometric Mouse
October - The Contemporary at Austin Texas - Jones Center
Jessica Stockholder: Relational Aesthetics
Robert Davidson: U and Eye
Huma Bhabha: Other Forms of Life
August - Pulitzer Arts Foundation - St. Louis, Missouri
Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Richard Serra - Joe, 1999
Aram Han Sifuentes: "We Are Never Never Other"
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Amy Sherald - Staged Narratives Portraits
Claudia Comte: "Electric Burst (Lines and Zigzags)"
Great Rivers Biennial
Addoley Dzegede - Ballast
Sarah Paulsen - The invention of Whiteness
Jacob Stanley - Time
Saint Louis Art Museum
Sunken Cities: "Egypt's Lost Worlds"
Cyprien Gaillard - New Media Series
Museum permanent Collections
July - High Museum of Art - Atlanta, Georgia
Self-taught artists - Outliers and American Vanguard Art
Kai Lin Art Gallery - Atlanta, Georgia
THE NEW SOUTH III - Artists of the Southeast
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
LARRY WALKER - Two Part Retrospective / The Early Years
April - The Museum of Fine Arts - Houston
Michelangelo And The Vatican:
Masterworks From The Museo E Real
Bosco Di Capodimonte, Naples
the Kimbell Art Museum - Fort Worth, Texas
World-renowned collection ranging from antiquity to the 20th century.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
FOCUS: Kamrooz Aram
New Works by Ron Mueck
January - Blanton Museum of Art - The University of Texas at Austin
Soundspace: Feedback
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin Texas
Fotografia y Nuevos Medios: "Selections from the Permanent Collection"
Paul Valadez: "Selections from the Great American Songbook"

2017 August - The Menil Collection - Houston, Texas
30 Works 30 Years
June - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Matisse in the Studio
Boticelli and the Search for the Divine
Wilson/Cortor
Memory Unearthed: "The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross"
Darkness Made Visible: "Derek Jarman and Mark Bradford"
Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine
Winslow Homer Collection
A New American Sculpture, 1914-1915: "Lachaise, laurent,
Nadelman, and Zorach"
Hans Hofmann: "Works on Paper"
May - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Ron Mueck
The Menil Collection - Houston, Texas
Between Land and Sea: "Artists of the Coenties Slip"
March- The McNay Art Museum - San Antonio, Texas
Monet to Matisse: "A Century of French Moderns"
The Menil Collection - Houston, Texas
Recollecting Dogon/Installation by Malian artist Amahigueré Dolo
Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David
Whitney Collections: "The Beginning Of Everyting"

2016 December - The Art Institute of Chicago
Master Drawings Unveiled: "25 Years of Major Acquisitions"
Kemang Wa Lehulere: "In All My Wildest dreams"
Moholy-Nagy Retrospective: "Future Present"
Permanent Collections: "Impressionism, European and African Art "
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
DEGAS: "A New Vision"
Emperor's Treasures: "Chinese Art From The Palace Museum, Taipei "
October - The Menil Collection - Houston, Texas
Picasso The Line
Mc Clain Gallery - Houston, Texas
Imagining Backwards: "Seven Decades Of Picasso Master Prints"
THE FRIST / Center for the Visual Arts - Nashville, TN
Women, Art, & Social Change: "The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise "
Tinney Contemporary - Nashville, Tennessee
David Yarrow: "Wild Encounters"
The Rymer Gallery - Nashville, Tennessee
Buddy Jackson: "Amor Fati /Love Your Fate"
The Tennessee State Museum
Permanent Exhibits: "The Age of Jackson / The New South"
Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, Texas
George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston Art Fair
Silver Street Event Space
August - San Antonio Museum of Art
Permanent Collection: Around the World in an hour
Gallery - Russell Collection Fine Art - Austin, Texas
Art Space - Gallery Shoal Creek - Austin, Texas
The Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria
Exhibition: Betty and Edward Marcus sculpture park
Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas
Goya: Mad Reason
Xu Bing: Book from the Sky
Emory Michael C. Carlos Museum - Atlanta, Georgia
Permanent Collection: From the ancient to the modern world
Doorway to an Enlightened World: Alice S. Kandell's Collection
July - Museum of Fine Arts Houston
High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter
Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection
February - Dallas Museum of Art
Jackson Pollock - "BLIND SPOTS"

2015 October - Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Mark Rothko: A retrospective
Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, Texas
George R. Brown Convention Center
September - Houston Fine Art Fair
NRG Center
August - Rice University Art Gallery - Houston, Texas
Ben Butler: "UNBOUNDED"
May - The Dali Museum - Saint Petersburg, Florida
Dali & Da Vinci: "Minds, Machines and Masterpieces"
Tampa Museum of Art - Tampa, Florida
American Chronicles: "The Art of Norman Rockwell"
March - Cy Twombly Gallery - Houston, Texas
Retrospective of the artist's career from 1953 to 2004
January - National Gallery of Art - Washington DC
Museum Permanent Collections
The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum - Washington DC
Masterworks from the art and artists of our time
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Monet and the Seine: "Impressions of a River"

2014 October - Rice University Art Gallery - Houston, Texas
Mud mural by Artist: YUSUKE ASAI
Dean Day Gallery - Houston, Texas
Mark Andrew Bailey: New paintings
September - Houston Fine Art Fair
Reliant Center
Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, Texas
George R. Brown Convention Center
July - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LA, California
Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky
May - The Menil Collection - Houston, Texas
Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds / Retrospective
April - Rothko Chapel - Houston, Texas
Mark Rothko: Seeing in the Dark / Lecture by Harry Cooper, Ph.D
March - The Armory Show - New York City
Piers 92 & 94
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City
Oasis Tour: "Integrity & The Woman and the Seed"
Guggenheim Museum - New York City
Italian Futurism, 1909 - 1944: "Reconstructing the Universe"

2013 December - Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona
October - The Menil Collection - Houston, Texas
Panel discussion about Art and Artistic Practice: Sarah
Rothenberg, Tony Hoagland and Carl Palazzolo
Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, Texas
George R. Brown convention Center
Galerie Perrotin - Paris, France
Michael Sailstorfer, Sun Yun and Peng YU
September - Musée de L'Orangerie - Paris, France
Tour: "From Monet to Picasso, A Story of Painting"
Musée d'Orsay - Paris, France
Exhibition: Collection d'Art pluridisciplinaire de 1848 à 1914
Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris
Les grands courants artistiques allant du XXème au XXIème siècle
August - Palais de Tokyo - Paris, France
Site de création contemporaine
Musée du Louvre - Paris, France
Civilisations antiques et l'Art occidental du Moyen Âge à 1848
June - La Galerie Lucas Ratton - Paris, France
L'Art Africain Traditionnel
Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
SIMON HANTAÏ: "Figure Magistrale de l'Abstraction"
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain - Paris, France
RON MUECK: "New Sculptures"
May - Petit Palais / Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
Félix Ziem, "j'ai rêvé le beau" - Peintures et Aquarelles
Musée Magritte - Bruxelles, Belgique
Parcours Chronologique et Thématique de l'Œuvre de Magritte

2012 October - Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, Texas
George R. Brown convention Center
September - The Art Institute of Chicago
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Houston Fine Art Fair
Reliant Center
July - High Museum of Art - Atlanta, Georgia
Exhibition: Permanent Collection
May - The Menil Collection - Houston, Texas
RICHARD SERRA DRAWING: A Retrospective
February - Wade Wilson Art gallery - Houston, Texas
Raw Beauty: Recent Paintings by Zachariah Rieke

2011 October - Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, Texas
George R. Brown Convention Center
September - Houston Fine Art Fair
George R. Brown Convention Center
April - Mc Clain Gallery - Houston, Texas
Donald Baechler: "Sculptures And Paintings"

2010 January - Smithsonian's National Museum - Washington DC
Celebrating DARWIN: "The Evolution of Evolution"
U.S Botanic Garden Conservatory - Washington DC
The irreplaceable value of plants to the well-being of humans

2009 July - Musée du Quai Branly - Paris, France
Là où dialoguent les cultures: "Quatre parcours géographiques"

2008 June - Les Musées de la Ville de Paris
Maison de Victor Hugo
May - Petit Palais / Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
Favorite: Aimé Morot - "Le Bon Samaritain" 1880

2003 August - Musée du Louvre - Paris, France
Les Collections Permanentes

AWARDS

2016 Honorable mention Award for an acrylic painting on canvas entitled "Uptown Houston"

2016 Member of the Watercolor Society - Houston (WAS-H)

2013 Nominee for the Annual Summer Studio Residency Program of Project Row House

2013 Honorable mention Award for a drypoint engraving entitled "Character"

2007 Gulf Coast Intercollegiate Consortium outstanding portfolio Award recipient. Organized by GCIC Art committe Chair, Cynthia Millis. Individual Portfolio assessed by Rachel Hecker from UH-Main Campus.

2006 International Scholar Laureate program nominee

2005 International Honor Society (Phi Theta Kappa) inductee and Scholarship recipient in 2006.

2004 National Dean's List 28th Annual Edition Recognition.

EDUCATION

2010 Graphic Design, Houston Community College

2009 Studio Arts, University of Houston School of Art

2009 Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Houston College of NSM

2006 Associate in Sciences with Honors, Houston Community College

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Perry House, The University of Houston, Jack Hanna, Kelli Vance, Gael Stack, Beth Secor, Urszula Wehrle, Joanna Davila, Shannon Duncan, Katherine Fields, TapScott M'Kina, Nathalie Ortiz, Danielle Levitt, Aaron Parazette, Joan Laughlin, Joëlle Akue, Suzanne Buckland, Pim Ormrod, Mark Chen.