Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a performance and visual artist best known for her videos, in which she uses her own body to explore movement and mark-making across water, land and air. Her current performance series entitled ‘Mo gbo mo branch/I heard and I branched myself into the party’ explores the presence of women in public space in Lagos, Nigeria. Ogunji has received a number of awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2012) and grants from the Idea Fund, Houston (2010), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2005). She has performed at Centre for Contemporary Art (Lagos), The Menil Collection (Houston) and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (St. Louis).  She lives in Austin and Lagos.