OKWUI ENWEZOR RESEARCH INTEREST AND CURRENT WORK *Contemporary Art: Encompassing 20th and 21st Century African, European, Asian, North American, Latin American Art; Further emphasis on contemporary and modern African-American Art, modern African art (including the countries of the Mahgreb); Contemporary African Diaspora Art (including the Caribbean, Europe, North and South America), and visual culture including film and video. *Research on, and analysis of theories and histories of modern and contemporary photography, theory of the archive, documentary photography, photojournalism, reportage, postcolonial African photography. *Research in global modernism and formations of modernity, theories of diaspora and migration, decolonization movements and their impacts on alternative modernisms, postcolonial modernism; the history and development of museums, exhibitions, and curatorial practice and theory; Histories and theories of modern architecture and urbanism especially the postcolonial African city; *Postcolonial and Postmodernist Theory and Criticism; Cultural Studies and Theories of representation, identity, multiculturalism, Modern African Literatures and Literary Criticism; Politics, popular culture

CURRENT APPOINTMENT 2011- Director Haus der Kunst, Munich

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (Academic: Universities and Museums) 2013 -

Distinguished Global Professor Department of Art History, New York University, New York

Spring 2012

Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor in Art History Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York

2010-2013

Joanne Cassulo Fellow Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Spring 2009

Getty Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute and Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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2005-2009

Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA See Addenda

2005-2009

Research Professor San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Fall 2004

Visiting Professor Department of Art History and Archaeology Columbia University, New York Graduate seminar on Documentary Practices and Bio-Politics

2004-2005

Visiting Professor School of Art and Science, Department of Art History University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA Graduate seminar on History and Theory of Contemporary Art and Photography Doctoral Committee

2003-2006

Visiting Professor Henry Clay Frick Department of History of Art and Architecture University of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, USA Graduate seminar on the practice and theory of contemporary art Doctoral Committee

1994-Present Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Published by Duke University Press

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (Museums and Exhibitions) 2010-2012

Artistic Director La Triennale, 2012, Paris Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2010-2011

Consulting Curator Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland

2009-2011

Artistic Director Meeting Points 6 (A Biennial of Visual Arts, Performance, Cinema, and Sound): Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Cairo, Tunis, Tangier, Brussels, Berlin. Commissioned by Young Arab Theater Fund, Brussels

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2007-2008

Artistic Director 7th Gwangju Biennale Gwangju,South Korea

2005-2007

Artistic Director 2nd Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla Seville, Spain

2005-2011

Adjunct Curator International Center of Photography, New York

2004-2005

Chair Bauhaus Europa (Museum of European Culture), Aachen, Germany Chief responsibility in this role is the development and conception of a new museum dedicated to the history of Europe. I reported directly to the Mayor of the city of Aachen and coordinated the responses of the development of the project along with Dutch Architect, Rem Koolhaas and OMA that are responsible for the feasibility studies and master plan. The final report which I authored was presented to the Aachen city council in April 2005. The second phase of the project is the development of the architecture and program of the museum.

1998-2003

Artistic Director Documenta1I, Kassel, Germany See Addenda

1998-2001

Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

1996-1998

Artistic Director 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa See Addenda

ADDENDA Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute As Dean of College, oversaw all undergraduate academic programs, curriculum, and exhibition programs; appointed and supervised all teaching faculty including department chairs, dean of graduate studies, and director of exhibitions and college galleries. Expanded the hiring of visiting international faculty. Key accomplishments include: restructured and reconceptualized the academic architecture of the college into two schools: School of Studio Practice and School of Interdisciplinary Studies.

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Introduced five new undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary degree programs including the first non-studio based degrees in the College’s 135 year history in History and Theory of Contemporary Art (BA and MA); Exhibition and Museum Studies (MA); Urban Studies (BA and MA) with full accreditation by WASC and NASAD. Introduced and successfully launched the College’s first dual studio and academic degree MFA/MA program. Reestablished the discontinued Ceramic Studies program; developed a successful Distinguished artist Fellowship program and introduced the first faculty research colloquium dedicated to the research initiatives of faculty and visiting artists. Led the curricula reorganization of the core academic programs and hired new leadership for different programs of the college.

Artistic Director of Documenta11 Developed and conceptualized the concept of Documenta11 Five Platforms. Directed each of the Five Platforms which included four conferences, workshops, seminars, and two exhibitions which conceived as locus of debate and interaction between artists, historians, theorists, architects, students, researchers and open to the public in each location across six cities in Europe (Kassel, Vienna, Hague, and Berlin), North America (New York), Caribbean (St. Lucia), Africa (Lagos), and Asia (New Delhi). Core responsibilities included: hiring and directing a permanent professional office staff of 180; including curators, installation and technical staff, researchers, exhibition managers, editors, archivists, public relations, graphic designers, education, marketing, architects and exhibition designers, interns and other staff. Major responsibilities include: working closely with the Chief Executive Officer to develop and implement strategy; these include direct involvement in budget planning, the presentation of fund raising packages to the chief executives of major German banks, telecommunication companies, publishers, electronic and technology sectors, and automobile and transportation industries, international foundations. Actively raised funds and liaised directly with major political offices and the public sector including the mayor, minister president, federal finance and culture ministers, the office of the chancellor, embassies, foreign missions, major foundations (both private and public), museums and cultural agencies, galleries, public and private lenders. Traveled extensively over a period of four years to over forty-five countries in Asia, Europe, North and Latin America, Australia, and Africa to publicize and present the program of Documenta11.

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Directed and edited eight major accompanying publications, including a comprehensive catalogue of artworks, scholarly essays, and artists’ writings; a short guide overview of each of the 116 participating artists; a catalogue documenting the in situ exhibition installations; a commissioned volume of research study of Latin American urban territories; and four anthologies of essays and presentation on the platform topics of the Documenta11 project. (See publications) Commissioned and produced more than 70 new art projects by some of the most important and distinguished contemporary artists including: film, video, photography, sculpture, painting, installation and performances. Commissioned and led the architectural design of the exhibition sites; including the highly acclaimed conversion of 8,000 square meters of an old historic brewery into an exhibition hall by the Berlin-based, German/Italian architectural office Kuhn Malvezzi. Established international graduate curatorial and research fellowship for emerging scholars and curators from India, Japan, Poland, Austria, Mexico, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Directed the training of 400 professional exhibition guides in compact, precise courses of study over a five month period. Developed and supervised the layout and installation of all the galleries of the exhibition of more than 13,000 square meters in five buildings Artistic Director of 2nd Johannesburg Biennale Developed, organized, and directed the thematical and overall curatorial structure of the Biennale, focusing on and emphasizing current critical art practices, their development in extending the artistic language and history of contemporary art within a global context. Major responsibilities include: appointing and working in conjunction with eight international curators to develop specifically curated exhibitions and conference on subjects ranging from investigations of the work of women artists through installations, the city, hybridity, and the intersection of art and technology, a two city (Johannesburg and Cape Town) conference on art and globalization; and a film programme focusing on cinema made in Africa and its diaspora. Development and supervision of all the publications of the Biennale including a major catalogue, brochures, and guide for exhibitions, conferences, and film programme. Initiated a curatorial training program targeting under served local curators from South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, to help advance the knowledge of production of contemporary art

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Raised funds, liaised and served as direct contact with major cultural institutions such as museums, foundations, funding agencies, embassies and cultural ministries in more than fifty five countries. Traveled extensively to research contemporary art in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Supervised a staff comprising installation, logistical, education, media and promotion.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (Criticism) 1994-

Founder, Publisher and Editor Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art based at Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Published by Duke University Press

CURATED EXHIBITIONS (Selected) 2012

ECM: A Cultural Archaeology Haus der Kunst, Munich (Catalogue)

2012

Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life International Center of Photography, New York (Catalogue)

2012

Intense Proximity Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and Bétonsalon- Centre d’Art et de Recherche; Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Ivry- Le Crédac; Galliera: Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris; Grand Palais; Instants Chavirés; Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers; Musée du Louvre (Catalogues: French and English)

2011

Locus Agonistes: Forms and Logics of the Civic Meeting Points 6, Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Makan Center of Contemporary Art, Amman; Argos Center for Contemporary Art and Flemish National Theater, Brussels; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; and Onasis Cultural Center, Athens, (Bi-Lingual Catalogue: English and Arabic)

2010

Curator Events of the Self: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection, Walther Foundation, Ulm, Germany, (Bi-Lingual Catalogue: English and German)

2010

Curator Rules of Evidence: Text, Voice, Sight Berlin Documentary Forum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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Berlin, Germany (Bi-Lingual Catalogue: English and German) 2008

Artistic Director and Curator Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, comprised three constellations of exhibitions (On the Road; Insertions; and Position Papers, 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (Bi-Lingual Catalogue: English and Korean)

2008

Curator Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York (catalogue)

2006

Artistic Director and Curator The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society 2nd Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla Seville, Spain (Catalogues: English and Spanish)

2006

Curator Work Zones: Three Decades of Contemporary Art at San Francisco Art Institute Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

2006

Curator Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography International Center of Photography, New York (catalogue) Travelled: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museo Tamayo, Mexico city; Miami Art Central, Miami; Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam

2006

Curator William Kentridge: Two Projections Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

2002

Artistic Director Documenta11 Documenta und Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (4 books and 3 Catalogues)

2001

Director/Curator The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, (Catalogue) Travelled: Gropius Bau/Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; PS1 Center for Contemporary Art/Museum of Modern Art, New York

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2001

Curator (with Corinne Diserens) David Goldblatt: Fifty-One years Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (MACBA) Travelled: Witte de With, Rotterdam; Axa Gallery, New York; Centro Cultural Bellem, Lisbon; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Lenbachhaus, Munich; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (catalogue)

2001

Curator (with Olu Oguibe) Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis (Lagos Section) Tate Modern, London (Catalogue)

2000

Curator Stan Douglas: Le Détroit The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Brochure)

1999

Curator Mirror’s Edge BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden (Catalogue) Travelled: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Tramway, Glasgow, Charlottenburg Konsthal, Copenhagen

1996-1999

Co-Curator Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin Queens Museum of Art, New York, (Catalogue) Travelled: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; List Art Center, M.I.T., Cambridge; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

1999

Curator Three Projects: Liisa Roberts, Oladele Bamgboye, Chris Sauter ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (Brochures)

1998

Co-Curator Cinco Continentes y Una Cuidad Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico City (Catalogue)

1997

Curator Alternating Currents Electric Workshop, 2nd Johanneesburg Biennale, (Catalogue)

1997

Project Advisor CROSS/ING: Time, Movement, Location (Curator: Olu Oguibe) Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa (Catalogue)

1996

Co-Curator

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In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present Guggenheim Museum, New York (Catalogue) 1995

Co-Curator New Visions: Recent Work by Six Contemporary African Artist Zora Neale Hurston National Art Museum, Eatonville, Florida (Catalogue)

1995

Co-Curator Modern Life Aljira Centre for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, in conjunction with the Newark Museum (Brochure)

1990

Curator Speaking Parts: Recent Work by Eight Young New York Artists and In a Manner of Speaking , a two part exhibition at Mosaic Books, New York

1989

Curator Strong Medicine: Visionary Art/Surrealist Fantasies Mosaic Books, New York

FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2014

Matthew Barney: River of Fundament, Haus der Kunst, Munich

2015

David Adjaye: Architecture Haus der Kunst, Munich

2015

Aufklarung: Hanne Darboven Haus der Kunst, Munich

2016

Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Tate Modern, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2016

Milieus: Cabinet, Diorama, Vitrines Haus der Kunst, Munich

2017

Sun in their Eyes: Photography and the Invention of Africa, 1839-1939 International Center of Photography, New York

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (Boards, Advisory, Committees)

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Member Art Board of Trustees Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg, Munich

2008-

Member of Board of Advisors National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

2008-

Member Global Art Advisory Council Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt

2008-

Member Advisory Council, Center for Comparative Modernities Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2007-

Member of Board LAX Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

2007-2009

Member Advisory Committee University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

2003-2008

Curatorial Advisor Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai

2000- 2004

Member of Curatorial Board PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York

2000-2003

Member of Advisory Board Arnold Bode Prize, Kassel, Germany

2003-2011

Member of Board of Advisors: Prince Claus Fund Library, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1998-1999

Advisory Committee Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan

1999-2000

Curatorial Advisor Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1998 2000

Curatorial Advisor Rijksmuseum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands

1998-1999

Member, International Advisory Committee Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

2005-2009

Member: Advisory Committee, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco

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2003-2006

Member Exhibition Board Independent Curators International, New York

2001-2004

Member International Advisory Council Artist in Residence Program: DAAD (Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes), Berlin

2001-2004

Member of Editorial Board Connect: Art, Politics, Culture, New York

2000-2006

Contributing Editor KW: KunstWerke, Berlin

1996-1999

Contributing Editor Flash Art International, Milan, Italy.

1995-

Consulting Editor Atlantica Internacional: Revista de las Artes a bilingual art quarterly magazine of Museum Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

ESSAYS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS (Magazines, Journals, Periodicals) Selected Predicaments of Culture: Venice 2013, Artforum, September 2013, 326-329 Chinua Achebe – 1930-2013, Artforum, Summer 2013, 77-78 Spring Rain: On Ai Weiwei and Sharjah Biennial, Artforum, Summer, 2011, Reckoning with Empire, Artforum, October 2009, 175-177 Response, “Questionnaire: In what ways have artists, academics, and cultural institutions responded to the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq?, October 122, Winter, 2008 Top Ten, Artforum, December, 2007, 258-259 Top Ten, Artforum, December, 2007, 316-317 History Lessons, Artforum, September, 2007 Top Ten, ArtForum, December, 2006 Keeping One Step Ahead: Art Schools in a Global Context in Frieze, September 2006

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Documentary/Verité: Bio-Politics, Human Rights and the Figure of “Truth” in Contemporary Art, Art and Ethics: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 4, Number 2, 2003 and Volume 5, Number 1, 2004, 11-42 The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transitions, Research in African Literatures Volume 34 Number 4, Winter 2003 Three Phases of a Monument: Liisa Robert’s Sidewalk, Parkett #60, 2000 Truth and Responsibility: A conversation with William Kentridge, Parkett 54, 1998/99 Swords Drawn: William Kentridge’s Drawings for Projection, Frieze, March-April, 1998 Harlem on my Mind, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Number 8, Spring/Summer, 1998 The Act of Naming: Santu Mofokeng, Grand Street, Spring, 1998 Reframing the Black Subject: Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Art, Third Text, winter 1997 The Joke is on You: The Art of Yinka Shonibare, Flash Art, October, 1997. Reprinted in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, winter 1997 A conversation with Catherine David, Siski, September, 1997 Gabriel Orozco: Infinite Silences, Atlantica: Revista de la Artes, Summer, 1997 The Spiral Village, review, Frieze, March-April, 1997 Basquiat, review, Frieze, January-February, 1997 Inclusion/ Exclusion: Art in the Age of Global Migration, review, Frieze, NovemberDecember 1997 Antoinette Murdoch, review, Frieze, September-October 1996, Vita Art Now, review, Frieze, September, 1996 Social Grace: The Work of Lorna Simpson, essay, Third Text, Summer 1996 Bringing Africa Into Focus: A Photo Essay” with Octavio Zaya, American Visions: The Magazine of Afro-American Culture, June 1996 Writing Inside the Hyphen: The Photographic Work of Carrie Mae Weems, Index On Censorship, volume 35, #3,essay. Spring, 1996

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A Necessary Icon? International Review of African American Art, Book review (Art on my Mind by bell hooks). Spring 1996 The Ruined City: Desolation, Rapture, and Georges Adeagbo, essay; Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring 1996 Ellen Gallagher, review, Frieze, March, 1996. Moving In: Eight Contemporary African Artists with Octavio Zaya, Flash Art International, essay. January 1996 Occupied Territories: Power, Access, and African Art, essay, Frieze, December, 1995 Between Worlds: Postmodernism and African Artists in the Western Metropolis, essay Atlantica: Internacional Revista de la Artes, Winter, 1995 Modern Life: A Continuously Elaborated Task,, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ and Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, exhibition essay, September, 1995 Ouattara: New Works Glendora: African Quarterly On the Arts, review, vol 1, Number 2 1995, Bright Bimpong: Recent Sculptures, Atlantica Internacional Revista de la Artes, Fall 1995 The Body in Question: Whose Body? Third Text, review, Summer 1995; Helen Evans Ramsaran: Sculptor, African Profiles International, May, 1995 The Inverted Sign: Rereading Frederic Bruly Bouabré, essay, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer 1995 Toyce Anderson, review, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer, 1995 The Gift: Bright Bimpong and Tom Otterness, exhibition essay, Skoto Gallery, New York, December, 1994 Vortex #3, Africa World Review, London, Winter 1994; Redrawing the Boundaries: Towards a New African Art Discourse, essay, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, inaugural issue, Fall/Winter 1994 Artefacts of Memory: The Sculptures of Leonardo Drew, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, inaugural issue, Fall/Winter 1994

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Fusion: West African Artists in the Venice Biennale, review, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, inaugural issue, Fall/Winter 1994 Two Nigerian Artists: Ben Ajaero and Obiora Anidi, review, African Profiles International, June 1994 Tombs and Flowers, poem in The Portable Lower East Side, Volume Ten, Number One, 1993 Between Character and Essence: The Photographs of Ross Bennett Lewis, Portfolio essay, 1992

PUBLICATIONS: Chapter contributions - BOOKS and CATALOGUES (Selected) “The Death of the African Archive and the Birth of the Museum: Considering Meshac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art” in Kerryn Greenberg, Meshac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art (London: Tate, 2013) “Architecture That Can Truly Be Owned by the People: Okwui Enwezor in Conversation with Andres Lepik” in Andres Lepik, Afritecture: Building Social Change (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013) “From Screen to Space: Projection and Reanimation in the Early Work of Steve McQueen” in Isabel Friedli, Steve McQueen: Works, (Berlin: Kehrer Verlag and Basel: Schaulager, 2012) “A Ceaseless Search for Form: The Work of El Anatsui” in Parkett, no.90, 2012, p.34-40 “Bright Light of the Maelstrom: Conversation with Cedric Nunn” in Ralf Seippel, editor, Cedric Nunn: Call and Response (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2012) “Images of Radical Will: Santu Mofokeng’s Photographic Ambivalence” in Corrine Diserens, editor, Santu Mofokeng: Chasing Shadows (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2011) “Friend, Enemy, Neighbour, Stranger: Proximity and the Crisis of Hospitality in an African City” in Peter Allison, editor, Adjaye Africa Architecture: A Photographic Survey of Metropolitan Architecture (London: Thames and Hudson, 2011) “Text, Subtext, Intertext: Painting, Language, and Signifying in the Work of Glenn Ligon” in Scott Rothkopf, Glenn Ligon: America (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011)

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“A Radiant Conflagration: (H’reg) On Burning and the Subjectivity of Photography in Yto Barrada’s Work” in Marie Muraciole and Friedhelm Huette, editors, Yto Barrada: Riffs (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011) “The Subversion of Realism: Likeness, Resemblance, and Invented Lives in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Post-Portrait Paintings” in Naomi Beckwith, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Any Number of Preoccupations (New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2010) “Social Mirrors: On the Dialectic of the Abstract and Figural in Ken Lum’s Work” in Ken Lum, Grant Arnold, editor (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010) “Documentary’s Discursive Spaces” in Hila Peleg, editor, Berlin Documentary Forum 1: New Practices Across Disciplines (Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2010) “Idolatry of the False: Portraiture and Mass Consciousness in Candice Breitz’s Video Portraits” in Yilmaz Dziewior, editor, The Scripted Life: Candice Breitz (Bregenz: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2010) “Weird Beauty: Ritual Violence and Archaeology of Mass Media in Wangechi Mutu’s Work” in Freidhelm Hütte and Christina Merz, editors., Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2010) “Framing and Reformatting: A Conversation Between Okwui Enwezor and David Adjaye” in Anne-Marie Bouttiaux and Koyo Kouoh, editors, David Adjaye’s GeoGraphics: A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present (Brussels: Bozar Books, 2010) “Between Apparatus and Subjectivity: Carlos Garaicoa’s Post-Utopian Architecture” in Mary Cremin, editor, Carlos Garaicoa: Overlapping (Milan and Dublin: Charta and Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2010) “The Vexations and Pleasures of Color: Afromuses and the Dialectic of Painting” in Judith Nesbitt, editor, Chris Ofili (London: Tate Publishing, 2010) “Allegory in Fiona Tan’s Lapse of Memory” in Bruce Grenville, editor, Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2009) reprinted in Hiromi Kurasawa, Fiona Tan: Ellipsis ( Tokyo: Nitto Shoin Honsha Co. Ltd. and Kanazawa: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013) “What is it?: The Image Between Documentary and Near Documentary” in Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell, editors, The Storyteller (New York: Independent Curators International, 2009) “Better Lives, Marginal Selves: Framing the Current Reception of Contemporary South African Art” in Sue Williamson, editor, Contemporary South African Art, 1960-2008 (New York: Harper Collins, 2009)

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“Shattering the Mirror of Tradition; Chris Ofili’s Triumph of Painting at the 50th Venice Biennale” in Chris Ofili (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2009) “Photography after the End of Documentary Realism: Zwelethu Mthethwa’s Color Photographs” in Isolde Briemaier, editor, Zwelethu Mthethwa (New York: Aperture Books, 2009) “Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence” in Altermodern, Nicolas Bourriaud, editor (London: Tate Publishing, 2009) “Exodus of the Dogs” in Terreno Ocupado: Jo Ractliffe (Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits, 2008) “On the Politics of Disaggregation: Notes on Cildo Meireles’ Insertions into Ideological Circuits” in Guy Brett and Vincente Todoli, Editors, Cildo Meireles, (London: Tate Publishing, 2008) “Documentary/Verité: Bio-Politics, Human Rights and the Figure of “Truth” in Contemporary Art” in The Green Room: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, Maria Lind and Hito Steyerl (Berlin: Sternberg Press and Annandaleon-the-Hudson: Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, 2008) “The Indeterminate Structure of Things Now: Notes on Contemporary South African Photography” in Tamar Garb, Editor, Home Lands/Land Marks (London: Haunch of Venison, 2008) “Mega Exhibitions or the Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form” in Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age, Andreas Huysen, editor (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008) “(Un)Civil Engineering: William Kentridge’s Allegorical Landscapes” in Carlos Basualdo, editor, William Kentridge: Tapestries, (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007) “Rapport de Forces: African Comics and their Publics” in Africa Comics, Sandra Federici, Thelma Golden, Andrea Marchesini Reggiani, and Mary Angela Schroth, editors (New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2007) “Place-Making or in the ‘Wrong Place’: Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition” in Stephanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist, editors, The History of A Decade that has Not Been Named (Zurich: JRP/Ringier and Dijon: Les presses du reel, 2007) “Forms of Arrangement/Engagement: Josephine Meckseper’s Displays of Political Pop” in Simone Schimp, editor, Josephine Meckseper (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2007)

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“Contemporary Art’s Civilizational Gap” in Hou Hanru, editor, Not Only Possible But Also Necessary: Optimism in an Age of Global War, 10th Istanbul Biennial, (Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 2007) “The Diasporic Imagination: The Memory Works of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons” in Lisa Freiman, editor, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything is Separated by Water, (New Haven: Yale University Press, Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2007) “Coalition Building: Black Audio Film Collective and Transnational Postcolonialism” in Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, editors, The Ghost of Songs: The Film Art of The Black Audio Film Collective, 1982-1998, (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and University of Chicago Press, 2007) “Narrative in the Photographic Work of Ahlam Shibli” in Adam Syzmcyk, editor, Ahlam Shibli: Trackers, (Cologne: Walther Konig Verlag and Kunsthalle Zurich, 2006) “Popular Sovereignty and Public Space: David Adjaye’s Architecture of Immanence” in David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings; Customization, Imbrication, Specificity, Peter Allison, Editor (London: Thames and Hudson, 2006) “Repetition and Differentiation—Lorna Simpson’s Iconography of the Racial Sublime” in Lorna Simpson (New York: Abrams Publishers and Whitney Museum, 2006) “Popular Sovereignty and Public Space: David Adjaye’s Architecture of Immanence” in Peter Allison, editor David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings: Customization, Imbrication, Specificity, (London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2006) “Documentary/Verité: Bio-Politics, Human Rights and the Figure of Truth Contemporary Art”, in Mark Nash, editor, Experiments with Truth, (Philadelphia: Fabric Workshop, 2005) “Tebbit’s Ghost,” in Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic, Editors, The Manifesta Decade: Essays on Changing Europe, Exhibitions, and Biennale Culture, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005) “The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis” in Malmo Art Academy Yearbook 2004 (Lund: Lund University, Sweden, 2004); in Nikos Papastergiadis, editor, Empires, Ruins, and Networks, (Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 2005); in Greg Sholette and Blake Stimson, Editors Collectivism After Modernism, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007) “Life and Afterlife in Benin: Photography in the Service of Ethnographic Realism” in Alex Van Gelder, editor, Life and Afterlife in Benin, (London: Phaidon Press, 2005)

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“The Enigma of the Rainbow Nation: Contemporary South African Art at the Crossroads of History” in Sophie Preyer and Laurie Ann Farrel, editors, Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, (New York and Cape Town: Museum of African Art and Spier, 2004) “Photography without Event: The Work of David Goldblatt” in Citigroup Photography Prize, 2004, Photographers Gallery, London, 2004 “Popular Theatre, Photography, and Difference: The Work of Samuel Fosso in Maria Francesca Bonetti and Guido Schlinkert, Editors, Samuel Fosso (Rome: Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, 2004) “Terminal Modernity: Rem Koolhaas’s Discourse on Entropy” in Veronique Patteuw, editor, What is OMA: Considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, (Rotterdam: Netherlands Architecture Institute and Berlin: National Galerie, 2003), published also in French and Chinese editions “Of Hedonism, Masquerade, Carnivalesque, and Power: The Art of Yinka Shonibare” in Laurie Ann Farrell, editor, Looking Both Ways: Contemporary African Artists Abroad, (New York: Museum of African Art, 2003) “Kay Hassan’s Post-Apartheid Gambit” in Bernhard Fibicher, editor, Kay Hassan, (Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 2003) Interview in “Global Village: The 60s” Stephane Aquin, Diane Charbonneu and Anna Detheridge, eds. (Montreal: Museum of Fine Arts, 2003) “The Production of Social Space as Artwork: Protocols of Community in the Work of Le Groupe Amos and Huit Facettes” in Shannon Fitzgerald, editor, A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, (St. Louis: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003) “Trickster Urbanism: The Architectutral Simulations of Bodys Isek Kingelez” in Bodys Isek Kingelez (Hamburg: Kunstverein Hamburg, 2001) “Lagos in the Culture of Twentieth Century Modernity” in Iwona Blazwick, editor, Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis” (London: Tate Modern, 2001) “A Question of Place: Revisions, Reassessments, Diaspora” in Salah Hassan and Iftikhar Dadi, editors, Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading, (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2001) “Interview with Thomas Hirschhorn” in James Rondeau and Susan Ghez, editors, Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake and World Airport, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Renaissance Society, 2000)

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“Tricking the Mind: The Work of Yinka Shonibare,” in Yinka Shonibare: Dressing Down (Birmingham and Oslo: Ikon Gallery, and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 1999) “The Nostalgic Curator: Art Exhibitions at the Limits of Art History” in Lars Bang Larsen, editor, Remarks on Interventive Tendencies (Copenhagen: Danish Contemporary Art, 2000) “Haptic Visions: The Films of Steve McQueen,” in Steve McQueen (London: Institute of Contemporary Art, London and Kunsthalle Zurich, 1999) “Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes on “African” Conceptualism,” in Luis Camnitzer, Jane Farver, Rachel Weiss, Editors, Global Conceptualism/Local Context, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999) “A Few Notes on Tracey Rose’s Quiet Subversion,” in Guarene Arte 98, (Torino: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per l’Arte, 1998) “Remembrance of Things Past: Memory and the Archive,” in Jan-Erik Lundstrom and Katarina Pierre, Editors, Democracy’s Images: Photography and Visual Art After Apartheid, (Umeå: BildMuseet, 1998) revised and expanded in Franz Kaltenbeck and Peter Weibel, editors, Trauma and Memory, (Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2000) Interview, in The Archive of Development, volume 13, Annette W. Balkema and Henk Slenger, editors, L&B (Lier en Boog) Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory) Global Vernunft Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1998 “Moments of Violence” in Adelina von Furstenberg, editor, The Edge of Awareness, (Milan: Edizioni Charta, 1998) “Between Localism and Worldliness,” in Olu Oguibe, editor, CRO/SSING: Time, Space, Movement, (Tampa: Art Museum of University of South Florida, 1997); republished in Meeting Worlds, Ria Lavrijsen, Editor (Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 1998) and in Video Cult/ures, (Karlsruhe: [ZKM] Center for Art and Media, 1999) Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, with contributions by Dan Cameron, Francesco Bonami, Matthew Higgs, Asa Nacking, Carlos Basualdo, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Hou Hanru, Rosa Martinez, and Susan Kandel; Phaidon Press, London, 1998 “Swords Drawn,” in Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev, editor, William Kentridge, (Brussels: Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1998) “Impressive Perversity,” in Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Mexico City, 1998 Trade Routes: History and Geography; 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, Johannesburg and Prince Claus Fund, The Hague, 1997

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In/Sight: African Photographers - 1940-Present, with Octavio Zaya, Guggenheim Museum and Abrams, New York, 1996 New Visions: Six Contemporary African Artists, with Dr. Salah Hassan, Zora Neale Hurston Museum, Eatonville, Florida, 1995 “The Ruined City:Desolation, Rapture and Georges Adeagbo,” in Germano Celant, editor, Future, Present, Past, 47th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1997 “Can the Subaltern be Heard?: Speech, Text, Revision” in Franklin Sirmans and Mora Beauchamp-Bryd, editors, Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain: 1966-1996, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997) “Neglected Art form or Poor Relation: The Importance of Printmaking in Africa” in Kendell Geers, editor, Contemporary South African Art: The Gencor Collection, (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, 1997) “Notes from the Edge of the Nation: Foreword,” in Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, editors, Art in South Africa: The Future Present (Johannesburg and Cape Town: David Phillips, 1996) “Ipso Facto: A Conversation with Olu Oguibe,” and “Altered States: The Art of Kendell Geers,” in Peter Weibel, editor, Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post-colonialism and Global Migration (Dumont, Cologne and Steiriescher Herbst, Graz, Austria, 1996. “In Transit,” and “Strike a Pose,” in Anders Michelson and Octavio Zaya, editors, Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark and Upsala Konstmuseum, Sweden, 1996. New Africa: An Anthology of New Writing from the Diaspora, (A Portable Lower Eastside, New York, 1993) BOOKS (Authored) Alfredo Jaar: The Sound of Silence (Paris: Kamel Mennour, 2012) Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks (co-author with Daniel Birnbaum, Connie Butler, Suzanne Cotter, Bice Curiger, Massimiliano Gioni, Bob Nickas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and commissioning editor, Craig Garret) (London: Phaidon Press, 2011) Lyle Ashton Harris: Excessive Exposure (New York: Gregory R. Miller and Company, 2010) Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (co-Author with Chika Okeke-Agulu) (Bologna: Damiani Editore, 2009)

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Conversations with Photographers: James Casebere Speaks with Okwui Enwezor (Madrid: La Fabrica Editorial, 2008) Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art (Gottingen: Steidl and New York: International Center of Photography, 2008) Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (Gottingen and New York: Steidl Verlag and International Center of Photography, 2006) Mega Exhibitions and the Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form, Thyssen Lecture on Iconology (Berlin: Humboldt University, 2001) In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present (co-Author with Clare Bell, Danielle Tilkin, and Octavio Zaya (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1996) Edited Intense Proximity: An Anthology of the Near and Far and Intense Proximity: The Guidebook (Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques and Artlys, 2012) with Melanie Boutloup, Abdellah Karroum, Emilie Renard, and Claire Staebler) Forest of Signs: Le Journal de la Triennale (http//www.latriennale.org/en/lejournal/forest-signs) James Casebere: Works, 1975-2010 (Bologna: Damiani Editore, 2011) Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, 7th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju and New York: Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Books on the Move, 2008 The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society (Barcelona: Actar, 2006) The Short Century: Independent and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2001) Mirror’s Edge (Umea: Bildmuseet, 1999) Trade Routes: History and Geography (Johannesburg: Africus 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, 1997) Co-Edited Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity, with Terry Smith and Nancy Condee (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008) Democracy Unrealized_Platform 1 with Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002)

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Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation_Platform 2 with Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002) Creolité and Creolization_Platform 3 with Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2003) Under Seige: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa and Lagos_Platform 4 with Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002) Documenta11_Platform5: Exhibition (Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002) David Goldblatt: Fifty-One Years, with Corinne Desirens and David Goldblatt (Barcelona: Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona, 2001) Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Market Place, with Olu Oguibe (London: INIVA and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999)

BOOKS (In Preparation) Off-Center: Contemporary Art and the Global Stage (Collected Essays) Forthcoming Archaeology of the Present: The Postcolonial Archive, Photography, and African Modernity, Franklin Murphy Lectures, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas (Spokane: University of Washington Press, 2014) Forthcoming Self-Writing: Texts by Modern and Contemporary African Artists, 1920-Present (edited with Chika Okeke)

COMMISIONED REPORT: UNESCO WORLD REPORT ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY Co-Author with Jean Fisher, Artists in Contemporary Societies – National or Global Citizenships? (Paris: UNESCO, 2009) SELECTED LECTURES AND CONFERENCES Intense Proximity: Concerning the Disappearance of Distance in Contemporary Art, Keynote Lecture, Curating the Curatorial: An International Summit, School of Visual Art, New York, November 2, 2013 Contemporary African Art and the Shape of Art History, Keynote Lecture, Annual Conference of British Association of Art Historians, Reading, April 2013

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Contemporary Art between Time and History, a conversation with Stan Douglas on the conditions of the archive and research in his work, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art and McGill University, Montreal, March 2013 Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, Global Distinguished Professor Lecture, Department of Art History, New York University, New York, February, 2013 Shattering the Mirror of Tradition; Chris Ofili’s Triumph of Painting at the 50th Venice Biennale, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, February, 2013 Between the Far and Near: On Ethnographic Realism and Contemporary Art, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, October, 2012 Off Centered: Contemporary Art and the Global Stage, AAA Burger Collection Keynote Lecture, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, May 2012 The Reflexive Museum: Haus der Kunst in Permanent Transition, Akademie der Bildende Kunste, Munich, May 2012 Episodes in Contemporary African Art Varnedoe Lectures, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Lecture #1: Setting the Stage: Contemporary African Art, From Postcolonial Utopia to Postcolonial Realism (February 12, 2012) Lecture #2: At Home in the World: The Art of El Anatsui and William Kentridge (March 29, 2012) Lecture #3: Disrupted and Disarticulated: Body Politic and the work of Marlene Dumas and Wangechi Mutu (April 26, 2012) Civitas, Citizenship, Civility: Art and Civic Imagination, Mosse Lecture, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, January, 2012 The Vexations and Pleasures of Colour: Chris Ofili’s ‘Afromuses’ and the Dialectic of Painting, Allen W. Root Distinguished Lecture, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, November 2010 Off-Center: Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence, Keynote Lecture, 22nd General Conference and 25th General Assembly of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Shanghai, November 2010

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On the Politics of Disaggregation: Notes on Cildo Meireles’ “Insertions into Ideological Circuits”, New School University and Parsons School of Art, New York, Public lecture, November, 2010 Weird Beauty: Ritual Violence and Archaeology of Mass Media in Wangechi Mutu’s Work, Inaugural Lecture of Critical Positions: Perspectives on Art History, Curatorial Practice, and Art Criticism, University of Colorado, Boulder, October, 2010 On the Forms and Logics of the Civic, Panel Discussion, 2nd Dream City, Festival of Performance, Tunis, Tunisia October, 2010 The Asian Century: Reflections on the 7th Gwangju Biennale, Lecture, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York, October 2010 Not For Sale: Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes: Contemporary Performance in Cape Town, Kinshasa, and Tunis, Panel Discussion, New York University, October 2010 Cultural Ecology: Art and Culture as Catalysts for Sustainable Development in Africa, Ecogram III, Panel Discussion with Faustin Linyekula and Mamadou Diouf, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, September 2010 Conversation with Zwelethu Mthethwa, Aperture, New York, May 2010 On Art Education, Panel, Homeworks, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, April 2010 Ahlam Shibli’s Trackers, Lecture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Photography Forum, April 2010 Photography and Diaspora: A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture, and Modernity, Panel Discusion, W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2010 Notes on the Archive, Keynote Lecture, March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, March 2010 Public Conversation with El Anatsui, Art Dubai, Dubai, March 2010 The Ghost of the Exhibition: Revisiting Documenta 11, lecture at D Documenta: A Conference Towards Documenta 13, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo, Turin, September 18, 2009 Sovereignty of the Archive, Keynote Lecture, Archive/Counter Archive Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, held in Prato, Italy, July10, 2009

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Suffocation of Images, lecture and discussion with Etienne Balibar accompanying the seminar: “Images in Conflict/Conflict of Images” Jeu de Paume, Paris, May 23, 2009 Africa, Oceania, and Modern Art, conversation with Yinka Shonibare, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, May 20, 2009 Studio, Lab, Study, and the World: Reflections on Artistic and Curatorial Practices, Keynote Lecture, Foundations in Art, Theory and Education (FATE) National Biennial Conference, Portland, April 3, 2009 Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, Lecture, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, March 29, 2009 Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence, Guest Lecture, Cooper Union, New York, December 16, 2008 Panelist, What is Real? Photography and the Politics of Truth, symposium, International Center of Photography, New York, December 13, 2008 Shattering the Mirror of Tradition: Chris Ofili’s Triumph of Painting at the 5oth Venice Biennale, 24th Globalization Lecture, Felix Meritis Haus: European Center for Arts, Culture, and Science, Amsterdam, December 12, 2008 Keynote Speaker, “The Tropenmuseum for a Change: Present Between Past and Future” International Symposium, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, December 10, 2008 Spectacle of the Oppressed: The Sixties, Xenography, and the Politics of Disaggregation, “Zones of Conflict,” symposium, Tate Modern, London, November 29, 2008 The Global Exhibition, lecture and panel, Museum 21: Institution, Idea, Practice, Symposium, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, November 12-13, 2008 The Politics of Spectacle: The Gwangju Biennale Inside Out, Guest lecture, Maryland Institute College of Art, October 15, 2008 Gwangju Biennale and the Asian Century, Guest Lecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, October 6, 2008 The Politics of Spectacle, Keynote lecture, “Biennales in Dialogue,” Australia Art Council in Conjunction with Biennale of Sydney and Art Gallery of New South Wales, July 2008 The Politics of Spectacle, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, June, 2008 Commencement Speaker, 2008 Graduating Class in Art History, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley, May 16, 2008

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Specious Modernity: Speculations on the End of Postcolonial Utopia, Keynote, Prologue 1: Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, April 2008 Live at NYPL, Conversations with Paul Holdengraber, Lorna Simpson, Luc Sante, and Christian Boltanski, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York Public Library, New York, April 2008 (Un) Civil Engineering: William Kentridge’s Allegorical Landscapes, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, April 2008 Topographies of Critical Practice: Exhibition as Place and Site, Keynote Lecture, “New Geographies in Contemporary African Art, conference organized by the Prof. Suzanne Blier, Harvard University, March, 2008 Sovereignty of the Archive, 2007 Annual Bakwin Lecture, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, February, 2008 Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, New Jersey City University, January 2008 Global Spectacles: Biennales and Contemporary Art, Asian Art Museum Director’s Forum 2007, Singapore Art Museum, November, 2007 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Kuala Lumpur, Moderator, July 2007 Incarcerated Life: Contemporary Art and the Security State, Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture, University College, London, May 2007 Incarcerated Life: Contemporary Art and the Security State, Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, April, 2007 Respondent to Homi Bhabha, “Global Ambivalence” 2007 Wattis Lecture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April, 2007 Place Making or “In the Wrong Place”: Contemporary African Art and the Postcolonial Condition, Keynote, 14th Triennial Conference of Art Council of African Studies Association, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2007 Archaeology of the Present: The Postcolonial Archive, Photography, and African Modernity, Franklin D. Murphy Lectures, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas Part I: “The Photographer and Images of Society: Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, David Goldblatt) Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (February, 2007)

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Part II: “The Uses of the Archive: John Akomfrah, Raoul Peck, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Santu Mofokeng) Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO (March 2007) Reimagining the Museum, public dialogues, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, (January, 2007) Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition, Keynote Lecture, “The Museum Concept: Identity, Roles, Perspectives” conference marking the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums, Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome, December, 2006 The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society (Revisiting the 2nd Seville Biennial) Artlies Distinguished Annual Critic’s Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, November, 2006 Documentary/Verite: Biopolitics, Human Rights, and the Figure of Truth in Contemporary Art, Modern Art Symposium, Department of Art History, University of Texas, Austin, November 2006 Limits, Off Limits, Enclosures and Conditions of the Unhomely, Artlies Annual Critic’s Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 2006 Works in Progress: Renee Green, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Respondent, May, 2006 Photography and Afropessimism The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, Center for New Media, University of California, Berkeley, May 2006 Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition, Keynote Lecture, “Postcolonialism and After” University of South Florida, Tampa, April, 2006 What the World Needs Now is More Biennials, Goethe Institut, Berlin, Panel discussion, March 2006 David Goldblatt: Archives of the South African Landscape, Miami Art Central, Miami, January, 2006 “Academy Remix” Stadelschule and Portikus, Frankfurt, December, 2005 Conversation with James Turrell, De Young Museum, San Francisco, November 2005 The Art of Richard Tuttle, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October, 2005 Inaugural Dean’s Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, September 2005 Public Conversation with Meredith Tromble, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, September, 2005

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Contemporary African Art and the Globalized World, Institute for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, June, 2005 Photography in the Service of Ethnographic Realism, Robert Lehman Lecture, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, May 2005 The Politics of Culture, with Saul Ostrow, School of Visual Art, New York, April, 2005 Biennialicity, Symposium of 7th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, April, 2005 “Experiments with Truth” Symposium, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, March 2005 Tebbitt’s Ghost or the Wrong Place in Contemporary Art, Keynote, “The Wrong Place” Situations Conference, University of Bristol and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, February, 2005 Documenta 11 and the Mega Exhibition Complex, Beckwith Lecture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, October, 2004 The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transitions, World Cultural Forum, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July, 2004 “Dakar Biennial Symposium”, Dakar, Senegal, 2004 The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis, Keynote lecture, “Almost Real” conference organized by European Cultural Foundation, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands; March, 2004; “Art and the Production of Knowledge” symposium, Malmo Academy and Lund Konsthal, Lund, Sweden, March 2004; Elaine Horwitch Lecture in Contemporary American Criticism, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 2004; Keynote lecture, “Empire, Ruins, and Networks” conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, April, 2004 Keynote Lecture “Beyond East and West” Symposium, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, January 2004 The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transitions, Keynote, “Diaspora and Experiences in the Visual Arts” Hirschhorn Museum and National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, December, 2003

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Documentary Forms in Contemporary Art “American Art Now: Aesthetics and Politics”, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, October, 2003 Documentary/Verité: Photography, Film, Video Documentation or the Figure of Truth in Contemporary Art, conference Keynote, “Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Art”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, September, 2003; The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transitions “The Big Idea Lecture Series” at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, July, 2003 Documentary/Verité: Photography, Film, Video Documentation or the Figure of Truth in Contemporary Art, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, May, 2003 The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transitions, Keynote, Mid Atlantic Art History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, April, 2003 “Colloquium in African-American Art,” Keynote W.E.B. Dubois Institute for AfroAmerican Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2003 Archaeology of the Present: The Postcolonial Archive and the Photographic Discourse of African Modernity Chancellor’s Public Lecture “Exploring the Human Experience”, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February, 2003 Archaeology of the Present: The Postcolonial Archive and the Photographic Discourse of African Modernity, Deutsche Bank Endowed Lecture, Froebenius Institute, University of Frankfurt, 2002, Documenta11 and the Production of the Contemporary Public Sphere, Gail Silver Memorial Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art and Brown University, October, 2002 Documenta11 and the Production of the Contemporary Public Sphere, Faculty of Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, November 2002 The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transitions, Keynote Lecture, “The New Geography of Culture,” Bibloteca Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November, 2002 Keynote Lecture: Asia Society, New York, 2002 Public Conversation on Curating and Globalization, Documenta11 with Jeremy Strick Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2002 Public Lecture on Documenta11: Ludwig Museum, Koln, 2002

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Mega Exhibitions and the Antinomy of a Transnational Global Form, Sawyer Seminar, Organized by Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University, 2001 Mega Exhibitions and the Antinomy of a Transnational Global Form, Thyssen Lecture on Iconology, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2001 On the Making of Documenta 11, Portikus, Frankfurt, October, 2000 Against the Grain: Making Exhibitions at the Edge of the New Millennium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March, 1999 Travel Notes: Contemporary Art in the Global Dimension, CAPC Musee de Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, February, 1999 At Home in the World: African Writers and Artists in Exile with Edward Said, Arjun Appadurai, Sherry Turkle, and Ping Chong; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, December, 1998 Rethinking Curatorial Strategies, Ex-Teresa Center for Contemporary Art, Mexico City, November, 1998 Biennales or The Cultural Logic of Globalisation, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, November, 1998 Crossroads: Contact Zones in New Urban Spaces in Post-Apartheid South Africa in the Colloquium: Arts Transforming the Urban Environment, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, October, 1998 (Organizer) The Incapacity of Images Today to Affect Us with Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain, October, 1998 Remembrance of Things Past: Memory and the Archive in Post-Apartheid South Africa, in Bending Towards Freedom: Conditions and Contradictions of Cultural Production in (Post-) Colonial Societies, University of Umeå, Sweden, September, 1998 Poetry, Art and African/American Relations, IASPIS (International Artists’ Studio Program in Sweden, Stockholm, September, 1998 The Nostalgic Curator: Exhibitions at the Limits of Art History, in “Remarks on Interventive Tendencis” international symposium, Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 1998 Trans-Atlantic, Museum of Modern Art, Las Palmas, Canary Island, Spain, May, 1998 The Power of Culture: Vision of African Cultural Co-operation and Development, Unesco Intergovernmental Conference, Stockholm, April, 1998

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International Exhibitions: Many Tongues, One Language, panel discussion with Lisa Phillips, and Paulo Herkenhoff, New York University, March, 1998 Johannesburg Biennale Revisted, public lecture, Royal College of Art and Institute for International Visual Art, London, February, 1998 Is there any Future for Art Criticism, international symposium, ARCO (Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo) Madrid, Spain, February 1998 Meeting Worlds, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December,1997 International Exhibitions and Globalisation: The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, December, 1997 The World Cup of Art: Missing the Goal, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles and Vienna, September, 1997 The Other Modernism, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, July, 1997 Biennales Reconsidered, 100 Days-100Guests, Documenta X, Kassel , July 1997 International Mega Exhibitions, 3 day symposium, organized by Rockefeller Foundation, Arts International, and USIS, Bellagio, Italy, August, 1997 Inklusion/Exklusion: Art in the Age of Postcolonialism and Global Migration, Graz, Austria, September, 1996 Conversation with contemporary artists, critics, and curators, with Kim Levin and Daniel Faust, Ecole des Beaux Arts Superieur, Paris, February, 1997 Contemporary African Art and Artists: Making New Meanings, Exploring Possibilities, Tyler College of Art, Philadelphia, 1995 Addenda: In addition to numerous other lectures, seminars, and presentations in Africa, Asia, Europe, United States, South America CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIUMS CONVENED: Formations of Global Civil Society and Domains of Public Culture, co-organized with Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing and 7th Gwangju Biennale, Beijing, October 28-30, 2008 The Politics of Spectacle and the Global Exhibition, four day seminar and symposium accompanying the 7th Gwangju Biennale, Chonam National University, Gwangju, South Korea, September 24-27, 2008

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Art and Curating in Times of Crisis, two day symposium in connection with the 2nd Seville Biennial of Contemporary Art, Centro Andaluza de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville Spain, October 27-28, 2006 Modernity and Contemporaneity: Antinomies of Art and Culture after the 20th Century (with Terry Smith and Nancy Condee) international conference on the reshaping of the modern, the postmodern, and postcolonial in contemporary theory and art. University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Museum of Art, November 4-6, 2004 Democracy Unrealized (with Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya) Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, March-April, 2001 and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, October, 2001 Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation (with Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya) Habitat Center, New Delhi, May, 2001 Creolité and Creolization (with Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya) St. Lucia January, 2002 Under Seige: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa and Lagos (with Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya ) Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria, April, 2002 Mirrors Edge: Exploring Fiction and the Real in Contemporary Art (with Jan-Erik Lundstrom) University of Umea and BildtMuseet, Umea, November, 1999 Trade Routes: History and Geography, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg and Cape Town, October, 1997 Contemporary African Art and Postmodernity, 38th Annual African Studies Association Conference, Orlando, Florida, panel organizer with Catherine Bernard, November 3 -6 1995 African Artists and the West: A counter Penetration, Arts Council of African Studies Association (ACASA): The Tenth Triennial Symposium, Museum for African Art, Metropolitan Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and New York University, chair and discussant April, 1995. Black Male and the Burden of Representation: African American Artists, Museums, and Curators (with David Hammons) Panel Discussion, Tribes Gallery, New York (with David Hammons, Al Loving, Deidre Scott, Stanley Whitney, Steve Cannon, Bill Hutson) Tribes Gallery, New York, January, 1995 BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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Numerous published articles, reviews, interviews, profiles in major Newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television including New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Time, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Frankfurter Allgemein, Frankfurter Rundschau, Corriere del Serra, Guardian, Financial Times, La Vanguardia, El Mundo, Economist, El Pais, Le Monde, Liberation, Sydney Morning Post, CNN, PBS (Newshour with Jim Lehrer), BBC, Arte TV, Canal Plus, Vogue, Elle, Wallpaper, GQ, Domus, etc. PROFESSORSHIPS AND LECTURERSHIPS Lecturer, Sankofa School of Visual Arts, New York, Spring, 1995 Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, September, 1997 Visiting Graduate Lecturer, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson, New York, March 1998 Visiting Lecturer, School of Humanities, Visual Art Administration: Curating and Commissioning Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London, England, February, 1998 and 2001 Visiting Graduate Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, October, 1998 Visiting Graduate Professor, Arts Administration and Curatorship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998-2000 Visiting Professor, University of Umea, Sweden, 1999-2000 Visiting Lecturer, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York 2002Visiting Lecturer, MA in Curatorial Studies, Faculdade de Belas Artes, University of Lisbon, August, 2006 Franklin Murphy Lecturer, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Spring Semester 2007 SELECTED JURY Juror: 2nd Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1998 Juror: FotoPres, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 1998 Juror: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L;Arte Contemporary Art Prize, Torino, Italy, 1998 Juror: FNB Vita Art Now Award, Sandton Art Gallery and First National Bank, Johannesburg, 1996 Juror: 7th Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt, 1998 Juror: 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1999 Juror: 1999 Carnegie Prize, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Juror: Arnold Bode Prize, Kassel, Germany, 2000 Juror: DAAD (for Contemporary Art), Berlin, 2001 Juror: Walter Hopps Curatorial Award, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, 2004 Juror: Young Palestinian Artist Award, Al Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine Juror: Artes Mundi Prize for Contemporary Art, Cardiff, Wales, 2004 Juror: The Infinity Award, International Center for Photography, New York, 2004 Juror: Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2005

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Selector: MacArthur Foundation, Chicago 2000-Present Juror: Aga Khan Award, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007 Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year Award, 2009 and 2010 Rolex Art Mentor Prize, Geneva, 2010 Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev, 2010 Gwangju Biennale Noon Award, 2010

MEMBERSHIP Member: Art Council of African Studies Association (ACASA) Member: African Studies Associations (ASA) Member: College Art Association EDUCATION New Jersey City University, NJ BA Political Science, 1987 HONORARY DEGREE Doctor of Fine Arts, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, May 2007 GRANTS Ford Foundation Research Grant, 2000 Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Hague, Publication Grant 2000 Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Hague, Publication Grant 1997 Rockefeller Foundation Grant for Art and Humanities (For 2nd Johannesburg Biennale Conference), 1997

AWARDS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS International Art Critics Association (AICA), United States Chapter award for Best Photography Exhibition, 1996 for In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present, Guggenheim Museum, New York Peter Norton Family Foundation Curator’s Award, 1998 Paul Mellon Distinguished Fellow, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, 2000 Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in Criticism, College Art Association, 2006

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Photo Espana, Best Photography Book of the Year Award for Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, 2006 Deutscher Fotobuch Preis 2006/2007, for Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, 2006 International Art Critics Association (AICA) award for Best New York Museum Theme Exhibition, second place, 2005-2006 for Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (awarded February, 2007) Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, Independent Curators International, New York, 2007 Award for Curatorial Excellence, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York, 2009 Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom, 2010 Deutscher Fotobuch Preis, Gold Medal for Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, 2013

CONTACT ADDRESS Home (New York) 193 Washington Park Brooklyn, NY 11205 Phone/Fax: +1 718 935 0907 Mobile: +1 917 239 7173 Email: [email protected] Home (Munich) Hildegardstrasse 6 80539 Munich Germany Haus der Kunst Prinzregentenstrasse 1 80538 Munich Germany Phone: +49 89 2112 7123 (office) +49 172 617 7416 (Mobile) REFERENCES Dr. Salah Hassan (Director, Africana Studies and Research Center and Chair, Department of Art History) Cornell University

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310 Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607 255-0528 Fax: 607 255-0784 Email: [email protected] Dr. Terry Smith Andrew Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory Department of the History of Art and Architecture 104 Frick Fine Arts Building University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone: 412 648-2404 Fax: 412 648-2792 Email:[email protected]

Prof. Stuart Hall (Emeritus Professor of Sociology) The Open University Milton Keynes 21 Ulysses Road West Hampstead MW6 1ED London United Kingdom Phone: +44 207 435 8730 Fax: +44 207 794 0729 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Chika Okeke-Agulu Associate Professor Department of Art and Archaeology and Center for African American Studies Princeton University Princeton, NJ Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 814 777-7802 Dr. Brian Wallis Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 Phone: 212 857-9730 [email protected]

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