Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor (23 October 1963 – 15 March 2019) was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He lived in New York City and Munich.

Publications

• "Where, What, Who, When: a Few Notes on 'African' Conceptualism", in Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950-1980s, eds. Jane Ferver, Luis Camnitzer and Rachel Weiss, New York: Queen's Museum of Art, 1999, pp 109-117. Catalogue essay. (English)
• editor, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, Munich: Prestel, 2001. Introduction, Chronology. (English)
• "Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition", Research in African Literatures 34:4 (Winter 2003), pp 57-82.
• "The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis", 2004.
• "The Uses of Afro-Pessimism", in Enwezor, New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, Gottingen: Steidl, 2006.
• "History Lessons", Artforum 46:1, New York, Sep 2007, pp 382ff.
• Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, New York: International Center of Photography, and Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the International Center of Photography, New York, Jan. 18-May 4, 2008. [1]. Exh.reviews: Avgikos (Artforum), Cotter (NYT), Saltz (NYMag), Swartz (NYArts), Maimon (CAA), Pelizzari (Ciel variable), Bodinson (Photo & Culture).
  • "Archive Fever: Photography Between History and the Monument", pp 10-51. Title essay.
• editor, with Terry Smith and Nancy Condee, Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity, Duke University Press, 2008. (English)
• with Chika Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, Damiani, 2009, 366 pp. Preface, Chs 1-7. (English)
• "Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence", in Altermodern: Tate Triennial, London: Tate, 2009; upd. version, South Atlantic Quarterly 109:3 (2010), pp 595-620. (English)

Interviews

• Carol Becker, "Interview with Okwui Enwezor", Art Journal 57:2 (Summer 1998), pp 101-107.
• Carol Becker, "A Conversation with Okwui Enwezor", Art Journal 61:2 (Summer 2002), pp 8-27.