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** Enwezor, [[Media:Enwezor Okwui 2002 The Black Box.pdf|"The Black Box"]], in ''Documenta 11 Platform: Exhibition'', 2002, pp 44-55. {{en}}
 
** Enwezor, [[Media:Enwezor Okwui 2002 The Black Box.pdf|"The Black Box"]], in ''Documenta 11 Platform: Exhibition'', 2002, pp 44-55. {{en}}
 
* [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/14434318.2004.11432730 "Documentary/Vérité: Bio-Politics, Human Rights and the Figure of “Truth” in Contemporary Art"], ''Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art'' 5(1): "Art & Ethics", 2004, pp 11-42; [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2004_2008_Documentary_Verite_Bio-Politics_Human_Rights_and_the_Figure_of_Truth_in_Contemporary_Art.pdf|repr. in]] ''The Green Room: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1'', eds. Maria Lind and Hito Steyerl, Berlin: Sternberg, and Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art/Bard College, 2008, pp 62-102. {{en}}
 
* [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/14434318.2004.11432730 "Documentary/Vérité: Bio-Politics, Human Rights and the Figure of “Truth” in Contemporary Art"], ''Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art'' 5(1): "Art & Ethics", 2004, pp 11-42; [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2004_2008_Documentary_Verite_Bio-Politics_Human_Rights_and_the_Figure_of_Truth_in_Contemporary_Art.pdf|repr. in]] ''The Green Room: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1'', eds. Maria Lind and Hito Steyerl, Berlin: Sternberg, and Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art/Bard College, 2008, pp 62-102. {{en}}
* ''Grossausstellungen und die Antinomien einer transnationalen globalen Form / Mega Exhibitions: Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form'', Munich: Fink, 2002, 59 pp. Lecture delivered at Humboldt University, Berlin, 4 Dec 2001.  {{de}}/{{en}}. English version repr. in ''Manifesta journal'' 2, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, pp 6-31.  
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* ''[[Media:Enwezor_Okwui Grossausstellungen Mega Exhibitions 2002.pdf|Grossausstellungen und die Antinomien einer transnationalen globalen Form / Mega Exhibitions: Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form]]'', Munich: Fink, 2002, 59 pp. Lecture delivered at Humboldt University, Berlin, 4 Dec 2001.  {{de}}/{{en}}. English version repr. in ''Manifesta journal'' 2, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, pp 6-31.  
 
* [http://sci-hub.tw/http://www.jstor.org/stable/4618328 "Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition"], ''Research in African Literatures'' 34:4 (Winter 2003), pp 57-82. [http://www.oddweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Enwezor-The-Postcolonial-Constellation.pdf] {{en}}
 
* [http://sci-hub.tw/http://www.jstor.org/stable/4618328 "Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition"], ''Research in African Literatures'' 34:4 (Winter 2003), pp 57-82. [http://www.oddweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Enwezor-The-Postcolonial-Constellation.pdf] {{en}}
* [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2004_The_Artist_as_Producer_in_Times_of_Crisis.pdf|"The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis"]], 2004. {{en}}
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* [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2004_The_Artist_as_Producer_in_Times_of_Crisis.pdf|"The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis"]], 2004. [http://www.lorelindeverhees.nl/index.php/work/the-artist-as-producer-ii/] {{en}}
 
* ''Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography'', Gottingen: Steidl, and New York: International Center of Photography, 2006, 383 pp. Catalogue of [https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/snap-judgements-new-positions-in-contemporary-african-photography exh.] held at the International Center of Photography, New York, 10 Mar-28 May 2006. [https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/africa_3730jsp/], [https://steidl.de/Buecher/Snap-Judgments-New-Positions-in-Contemporary-African-Photography-1217186155.html]. Exh. reviews: [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/design/colorful-and-clashing-looking-at-africa.html Cotter] (NYT), [https://www.academia.edu/5758182/ Duran] (SECAC Rev). {{en}}
 
* ''Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography'', Gottingen: Steidl, and New York: International Center of Photography, 2006, 383 pp. Catalogue of [https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/snap-judgements-new-positions-in-contemporary-african-photography exh.] held at the International Center of Photography, New York, 10 Mar-28 May 2006. [https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/africa_3730jsp/], [https://steidl.de/Buecher/Snap-Judgments-New-Positions-in-Contemporary-African-Photography-1217186155.html]. Exh. reviews: [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/design/colorful-and-clashing-looking-at-africa.html Cotter] (NYT), [https://www.academia.edu/5758182/ Duran] (SECAC Rev). {{en}}
 
** [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2006_The_Uses_of_Afro-Pessimism.pdf|"The Uses of Afro-Pessimism"]]. {{en}}
 
** [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2006_The_Uses_of_Afro-Pessimism.pdf|"The Uses of Afro-Pessimism"]]. {{en}}
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* editor, ''Intense Proximity: An Anthology of the Near and the Far. La Triennale 2012'', Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques: Artlys, 2012, 687 pp. Catalogue. {{en}}
 
* editor, ''Intense Proximity: An Anthology of the Near and the Far. La Triennale 2012'', Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques: Artlys, 2012, 687 pp. Catalogue. {{en}}
 
* editor, with Rory Bester, ''Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life'', Munich: Prestel, 2013, 543 pp. Catalogue. {{en}}
 
* editor, with Rory Bester, ''Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life'', Munich: Prestel, 2013, 543 pp. Catalogue. {{en}}
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* editor, with Katy Siegel and Ulrich Wilmes, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5c8bb0239ff37c6d8c622bd4 Postwar Art: Between The Pacific And The Atlantic 1945-1965]'', Munich: Haus der Kunst & Prestel, 2016, 846 pp. Catalogue. [https://postwar.hausderkunst.de/en/ Exhibition website]. [https://postwar.hausderkunst.de/en/explore/documents/postwar-art-between-the-pacific-and-the-atlantic-19451965-catalogue] {{en}}
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** ''Postwar: Kunst zwischen Pazifik und Atlantik, 1945–1965'', Munich: Haus der Kunst & Prestel, 2016, 846 pp. [https://postwar.hausderkunst.de/explore/documents/postwar-kunst-zwischen-pazifik-und-atlantik-19451965-katalog] {{de}}
 
* editor, ''Sarah Sze: Centrifuge'', Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2018, 128 pp. Catalogue. {{en}}
 
* editor, ''Sarah Sze: Centrifuge'', Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2018, 128 pp. Catalogue. {{en}}
  
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==Links==
 
==Links==
* Obituaries: [https://frieze.com/article/how-curator-okwui-enwezor-1963-2019-changed-course-art Jörg Heiser] (Frieze), [https://www.sfai.edu/uploads/about-sfai/SFAI_Okwui_Enwezor_Press_Release_final.pdf SFAI], [https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/en/remembering-okwui-enwezor/ Juliet Art Magazine].
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* Obituaries: [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/obituaries/okwui-enwezor-dead.html Jason Farago] (New York Times), [https://frieze.com/article/how-curator-okwui-enwezor-1963-2019-changed-course-art Jörg Heiser] (Frieze), [https://www.sfai.edu/uploads/about-sfai/SFAI_Okwui_Enwezor_Press_Release_final.pdf SFAI], [https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/en/remembering-okwui-enwezor/ Juliet Art Magazine], [http://www.artnews.com/2019/03/15/okwui-enwezor-dead-55/ Andrew Russeth] (ARTnews), [https://www.culturetype.com/2019/03/16/okwui-enwezor-has-died-at-age-55-the-visionary-curator-broadened-the-geographic-scope-of-the-contemporary-art-world/ Victoria L. Valentine] (Culture Type), [http://www.thirdtext.org/bishop-enwezor Claire Bishop] (Third Text).
  
 
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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.

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