Okwui Enwezor

Quick Facts

Full Name	Okwui Enwezor
Occupation	Curator
Date Of Birth	Oct 23, 1963(1963-10-23)
Age	61
Date Of Death	2019-03-15
Birthplace	Calabar
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Cross River State
Horoscope	Libra

Okwui Enwezor Biography

Okwui Enwezor is one of the most popular and richest Curator who was born on October 23, 1963 in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Okwui Enwezor (pronounced /e n ‘ w eI z@r (pronounced en-WAY-z@r)) is the son born to a wealthy Igbo family from Awkuzu located in Nigeria during 1963. After completing an academic year studying at the University of Nigeria, Enwezor relocated to Bronx, New York, at the age of 18. In 1987, he received an undergraduate degree in political science at New Jersey City University. New Jersey City University.

As a critic, writer as well as editor Enwezor has contributed regularly to many catalogs of exhibitions and anthologies and journals. He was the editor in chief and editor of critically oriented journals of art NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art founded in 1994. It is now being published through Duke University Press.

Enwezor was named an adjunct curator at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. He also curated numerous exhibitions in many other distinguished museums around the world, including Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, The Walther Collection, Germany; Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography ; The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994, Villa Stuck, Munich, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and P.S.1 and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Century City, Tate Modern, London; Mirror’s Edge, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Tramway, Glasgow, 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, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, and Witte de With, Rotterdam.

Previously, Enwezor was the artistic director of the Documenta 11 in Germany (1998–2002), as the first non-European to hold the job. He also served as artistic director of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1996–97), the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, in Seville, Spain (2006), the 7th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea (2008), and the Triennale d’Art Contemporain of Paris at the Palais de Tokyo (2012). He also served as co- curator of the Echigo-Tsumari Sculpture Biennale in Japan; Cinco Continente: Biennale of Painting, Mexico City; and Stan Douglas: Le Detroit, Art Institute of Chicago.

When Enwezor was graduated, he moved to the city and began writing poetry. He was a performer in the Knitting Factory and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the East Village. The study of poetry by Enwezor led to his exploration of language-based art forms like Conceptual Art to art criticism. He joined forces in 1993 along with African critics Chika Okeke-Agulu as well as Salah Hassan Enwezor created his tri-annual Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art in his Brooklyn home “Nka” is an Igbo word meaning art, but also means to create the art, or to make. He enlisted scholars and artists like Olu Oguibe along with Carl Hancock Rux to edit the first issue and to write about it.

Okwui Enwezor Net Worth

Okwui Enwezor is one of the richest Curator from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Okwui Enwezor 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Okwui Enwezor (23 October 1963 15 March 2019,) was an Nigerian curator artist, art critic writer, poet and teacher, who specialized in the field of art history. He was a resident of New York City and Munich. He ranked 24 on the ArtReview list of the 100 most influential artists in the world.

The books he has published include Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (Bologna: Damiani, 2009) co-authored with Chika Okeke-Agulu. Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaryity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2008)), Reading the Contemporary: African Art, from Theory to the Marketplace (MIT Press, Cambridge and INIVA, London) and Mega Exhibitions: Antinomies of the Transnational World Form (Wilhelm Fink Verlag Munich) The Archive Fever The Uses in Documents in Contemporary Art (MIT Press, Cambridge and INIVA), Document within Contemporary Art, and The Unhomely The Ghost Scenes within Global Society. The editor is a four-volume edition that includes Documenta 11 Platforms: Democracy Unrealized Explorations with Truth: Transitional Justice and the processes of Truth , and Reconciliation; Creolite and Creolization under the Siege of Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos (Hatje Cantz, Verlag, Stuttgart).

After putting on a couple of small museum shows, Enwezor had his breakthrough in 1996 as a curator of In/sight, an exhibit of 30 African photographers at the Guggenheim Museum. In/sight was one of the first shows anywhere to put contemporary art from Africa in the historical and political context of colonial withdrawal and the emergence of independent African states.

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Enwezor was the director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany. He also had the roles of adjunct curator of the International Center of Photography in New York City, and Joanne Cassulo Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. In 2013, Enwezor was appointed curator of the 2015 Venice Biennale, making him the first African-born curator in the exhibition’s 120-year history.

Facts & Trivia

Okwui Ranked on the list of most popular Curator. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Okwui Enwezor celebrates birthday on October 23 of every year.

Okwui Enwezor died on 15 March 2019 at the age of 55.