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That final show will soon be realized.
Okwui enwezor. Okwui enwezor 23 october 1963 15 march 2019 was a nigerian curator art critic writer poet and educator specializing in art history. Okwui enwezor a leading curator and scholar of contemporary art is the dean of academic affairs at the san francisco art institute and founding publisher and editor of nka. Okwui enwezor in full okwuchukwu emmanuel enwezor born october 23 1963 calabar nigeria died march 15 2019 munich germany nigerian born poet art critic art historian and curator who helped bring global attention to african art. In 2014 he was ranked 24 in the artreview list of the 100 most powerful people of the art world. Journal of contemporary african art. Okwui enwezor an influential nigerian curator whose large scale exhibitions displaced european and american art from its central position as he forged a new approach to art for a global age died. He lived in new york cityand munich.
He lived in new york city and munich. Okwui enwezor the deeply influential nigerian curator poet and educator who established new ways of thinking about contemporary art with powerful shows including the 2015 venice biennale and documenta 11 in 2002 has died at age 55 from cancer. O kwui enwezor who has died aged 55 was a peerless charismatic nigerian curator who helped place non western art histories on an equal footing with the long established narrative of european and. When the renowned nigerian curator okwui enwezor died in munich in march at age 55 he left behind substantial preparatory materials for a future exhibition. He is the only african born curator to organize the two prestigious exhibitions. C urator okwui enwezor whose incisive free thinking and ambitious exhibitions were essential in pushing the art world to embrace a global view of contemporary art and art history has died at.