Award winning actress CCH Pounder has been extensively involved with the arts as a patron, collector, gallery owner and museum founder. Pounder’s collection consists of Caribbean and African artists and artists of the African Diaspora. Her collection is heavily concentrated in the area of Contemporary Art but also includes traditional African sculptures. In 1992, Pounder and her husband, the late Boubacar Koné, founded and built the Musée Boribana, the first privately owned contemporary museum in Dakar Senegal, which they gifted to that nation in 2014.

 

Pounder’s personal collection contains over 500 works of art, many of which she has loaned to Xavier University of Louisiana for a series of exhibitions and some loans which have been on exhibit at Somerset House in England, Kent State Museum, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, AD&A Museum UC Santa Barbara, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Art,  as well as recent exhibits at The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago and The African American Museum in Philadelphia.

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CCH Pounder’s collection contains over 500 works of art from Caribbean and the African Diaspora. Originally from Georgetown Guyana Pounder and her husband, the late Boubacar Koné, built the Musée Boribana in 1992, the first privately owned contemporary museum located in Senegal, which they gifted to that nation in 2014. Pounder has loaned numerous pieces  to institutions including Xavier University, Kent State and also for exhibits at Somerset House in England and The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, MI.

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Pounder serves on the Advisory Board of the African Millennium Foundation and was a founding member of Artists for a New South Africa. Recent accolades include the Visionary Leadership Award from MOAD in San Francisco, the 2015 Carney Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Chase Brexton Health Care in Baltimore, 2015 Honoree at the Grand Performances Gala in Los Angeles, the 2016 SweetArts Performing Arts honoree from the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, the National Urban League’s 2017 Women of Power Award and the 2018 Bob Marley Award from AFUWI (American Foundation for the University of the West Indies).