Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor
Is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute. He is Adjunct Curator at International Center of Photography, New York. Enwezor is founder and editor of the critical art journal Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art published by the Africana Study Center, Cornell University. He was Artistic Director of Documenta11 (Kassel, Germany, 1998-2002) and of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1996-1998), among others. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present, Guggenheim Museum; he was co-curator of Cinco Continentes: Biennale of Painting Mexico City; and the forthcoming Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, at International Center of Photography, New York. 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 (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich). He is co-editor of Antinomies of Art and Culture after 20th Century: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity (Duke University Press, forthcoming Fall, 2007) and he is currently completing Archaeology of the Present: The Postcolonial Archive, Photography and African Modernity.