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{{short description|Kenyan-born British studio potter (born 1950)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox artist
| honorific_prefix = [[Dame]]
| name = Magdalene Odundo<br /><small>[[Order of the British Empire|DBE]]</small>
| image = Thrown, Burnished, Reduction Fired pot by Magdalene Odundo (YORYM-2004.1.950).JPG
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| caption = ''Untitled'' Burnished, reduction fired pot by Magdalene Odundo from the [[William Alfred Ismay|W.A. Ismay]] collection at [[York Art Gallery]]
| birth_name = Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950}}
| birth_place = [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]]
| death_date =
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* The British Museum, London
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
* [[Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum|Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum]], New York<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Berns|first=Marla C|date=28 July 2014|title=Odundo, Magdalene|url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7002263776|journal=Grove Art Online|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2263776|isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 }}</ref>
* National Museum of African Art, Washington DC<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Soppelsa|first=Robert T.|date=Winter 1996|title=Ceramic Gestures: New Vessels by Magdelene Odundo|journal=UCLA James S Coleman African Studies Center|volume=29|issue=1|pages=74|jstor=3337453}}</ref>
*[[Toledo Museum of Art]], Toledo, OH<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.toledomuseum.org/about/news/mar-6-art-minute-magdalene-odundo-untitled|title=Mar. 6 Art Minute: Magdalene Odundo, "Untitled"|date=2017-03-06|website=The Toledo Museum of Art|language=en|access-date=2019-05-02}}</ref>
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In 2017 it was announced that Odundo would take up the role of Chancellor of the [[University for the Creative Arts]] from June 2018.<ref>Wanjohi, John, [http://www.mwakilishi.com/article/diaspora-news/2017-09-20/prof-odundo-named-chancellor-of-univ-of-creative-arts "Kenyan-Born Prof Magdalene Odundo Named Chancellor of UK's University of Creative Arts"], mwakilishi.com, 20 September 2017.</ref>
Odundo, who in 2008 was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) for services to Art,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalceramicsfestival.org/portfolio/magdalene_odundo/|title=Magdalene Odundo OBE (KENYA/UK)|date=8 January 2019 |publisher= International Ceramics Festival|access-date=9 July 2020}}</ref> was made a [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire|Dame]] (DBE) in the [[2020 New Year Honours|Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3454714|title=Order of the British Empire|journal=The Gazette|issue=62866|date=27 December 2019|access-date=9 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-year-s-honours-2020-awards-for-curator-ann-gallagher-museum-chief-tim-marlow-and-artist-david-shrigley|title=UK New Year's Honours 2020: awards for ceramicist Magdalene Odundo and artist David Shrigley|work=The Art Newspaper|first=Gareth|last=Harris|date=28 December 2019|access-date=9 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uca.ac.uk/news/dame-magdalene-odundo/|title=UCA Chancellor Magdalene Odundo made a dame|publisher=University for the Creative Arts|date=3 January 2020|access-date=9 July 2020}}</ref>
In 2022 is a world famous ceramic artist and Chancellor of the University of the Creative Arts. In 2008 she received the African Art Recognition Award from the Detroit Art Institute and in 2012 the African Heritage 40 Years Anniversary Award. In 2019 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Ceramics Festival and in 2020 was appointed DBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for Services to the Arts and Arts Education. In 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by [[Anglia Ruskin University]].
==Footnotes==
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==External links==
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<!--link is duplicated below* [http://www.magdaleneodundo.com http://www.magdaleneodundo.com/ website]-->
* [http://www.magdaleneodundo.com/ Magdalene Odundo] at Anthony Slayter-Ralph fine art
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[[Category:British women artists]]
[[Category:Artists from Nairobi]]
[[Category:20th-century Kenyan women]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University for the Creative Arts]]
[[Category:Academics of the University for the Creative Arts]]
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