UC Berkeley Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium - Bio: Okwui E...
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Okwui Enwezor Contemporary African Photography and Film DATE
5/3/06
AFFILIATION Curator & Dean, Art Institute of San Francisco, San Francisco
ABSTRACT Okwui Enwezor's presentation will draw from four works in progress. Two are books: The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transitions, and Archaeology of the Present: The Postc Postcolonia oloniall Archive Archive,, Photog Photogra raphy phy and and Africa African n Modern Modernity ity.. Two are are exhibit exhibition ion project projects: s: Snap Snap Judgments: Recent Positions in Contemporary Contemporary African Photography, and On Governmenta Governmentality: lity: Techniques and Technologies o f Critique, D issent, Resistance and and Soli darity in Contemporary Contemporary Art.
BIO Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor is a highly respected curator and art historian and is Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art Institute. He has been Visiting Professor in Art History at University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, University of Illinois, and the University of Umea, Sweden. Enwezor was Artistic Director of Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (1998-2002) and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1996-1997) and is currently Artistic Di rector of Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo Contemporaneo in Seville. Sevil le. He has served on the jury of the Carnegie International, Venice Biennale; Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum; Foto Press, Barcelona; Carnegie Prize; International Center for Photography Infinity Awards; Young Palestinian Artist Award, Ramallah; Ramallah; and the Cairo, Istanbul, Sharjah, Sharjah, and Shanghai Shanghai Biennales. As a writer, critic, and editor, Enwezor is a regular contributor to exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and journals. He is founder and editor of the critical art journal Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art published by the Africana Africana Study Center, Center, Cornell Cornell University University.. His writings have appeared appeared in journals, journals, catalogue catalogues, s, books, and magazine magazines s such as: Third Text, Text, Document Documents, s, Texte Texte zur Kunst, Grand Street Street,, Parkett, Artforum, Frieze, Art Journal, Research in African Literatures, Index on Censorship, Engage, and Atlantica. Among his books are Reading the Contemporary: African Art, from Theory to the Marketplace (MIT Press, Cambridge and INIVA, London) and Mega Exhibitions: Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form Form (Wilhelm (Wilhelm Fink Ver Verlag lag,, Munich) Munich) and and the the four volume volume publicat publication ion of Docume Document nta a 11 Platfo Platform rms: s: Democrac Democracy y Unrealized; Unrealized; Experime Experiments nts wi th Truth: Truth: Transitiona Transitionall Justice and the Processes Processes o f Truth Truth and Reconciliation; Reconciliation; Creolitè Creolitè and Creolization; Creolization; Under Under Seige: Four African Cities, Freetown, Freetown, Johanneb Johanneburg, urg, Kinshasa, Lagos (Hatje Cantz, Verlag, Stuttgart). Enwezor has curated major major museum exhibitions such as The Short S hort Century: Century: Independence and Liberation Movem Movemen ents ts in Africa Africa,, 194 1945-19 5-1994, 94, Museu Museum m Villa Stuck Stuck,, Munich, Munich, Gropius Gropius Bau, Bau, Berlin, Berlin, Museu Museum m of Contemporary Art Chicago, and P.S.1 and Museum of Modern Art, NewYork; Century City, Tate Modern, London; Mirror's Mirror's Edge, Edge, Bildmuseet, Bildmuseet, Umea, Umea, Vancouve Vancouverr Art Gallery, Gallery, Vancouve Vancouver, r, Tramwa Tramway, y, Glasgow,
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UC Berkeley Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium - Bio: Okwui E...
http://atc.berkeley.edu/bio/Okwui_Enwezor/
Castello di Rivoli, Torino; In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present, Guggenheim Museum; Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, List Gallery at MIT, Cambridge; David Goldblatt: Fifty One Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, AXA Gallery, New York, Palais des Beaux Art, Brussels, Lenbach Haus, Munich, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Witte de With, Rotterdam; co-curator of Echigo-Tsumari Sculpture Biennale in Japan; co-curator of Cinco Continente: Biennale of Painting, Mexico City; Stan Douglas: Le Detroit, Art Institute of Chicago. Enwezor received awards and grants from Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, International Art Critics Association, and the Peter Norton Curatorial Award. Enwezor lives i n New York and San Francisco. -- AS OF 5/3/06
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