NYAB Event - Night School Public Seminar 5: Okwui Enwezor

Night School Public Seminar 5: Okwui Enwezor

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

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Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute. He is Adjunct Curator at International Center of Photography, New York and previously Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Enwezor is Artistic Director of the 7th Gwangju Biennale, opening September 2008. He was previously Artistic Director of the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain (2005-2007); Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (1998-2002); and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1996-1998). Enwezor has organized numerous exhibitions around the world, including “The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994”; “In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present”; “Global Conceptualism”; and most recently “Archive Fever: Photography Between History and the Document.”