Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor is a curator, writer, and critic. He is the artistic director of Meeting Point 6, a multi-city exhibition project taking place in Beirut, Amman, Damascus, Cairo, Tunis, Tangier, Brussels, and Berlin between 2010 and 2012. Enwezor is founder and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. He was Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute (2005–9), and artistic director of Documenta 11 (1998–2002). He serves as adjunct curator at International Center of Photography, where he is currently completing work on two exhibitions, The Rise and Fall of Apartheid and Sun in Their Eyes: Photography and the Invention of Africa, 1839–1939. His most recent book is Contemporary African Art Since 1980, with Chika Okeke-Agulu.

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