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Okwui Enwezor

1963 - 2019

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Okwui Enwezor has received more than 157,663 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Okwui Enwezor is the 6,975th most popular writer, the 113th most popular biography from Nigeria and the 10th most popular Nigerian Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

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  • 2.49

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Notable Works

Documenta11_Plattform5
2002
Cross/ing
African Art, Exhibitions, Space and time
1997
Contemporary African art since 1980
Catalogs, African Art, Visual arts
2009
Frank Bowling
Correspondence, Exhibitions, British Painting
Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in pictures that are at once absorbing and tactile. When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling's immense "map paintings" were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle modulation of the painted surface. These works, like many in Bowling's oeuvre, draw on the principle of mapping to create a kind of mental geography, woven throughout with personal and historic imagery. This collection of paintings from throughout Bowling's career features exquisite reproductions that illuminate his experiments with material and the paintings' wide range of pictorial possibilities. Accompanied by an extensive curatorial survey, art historical contributions, prose poem, biographical visual essay, as well as the collected writings and correspondence of the artist, this book offers an in depth exploration of Bowling's career and aspects of his journey from his home in Guyana to London and New York. It also highlights references to the natural world and his use of classical and literary symbolism. This book creates a true mappa mundi--an evolving map of Bowling's inner and physical worlds.
2012
Lorna Simpson
Portraits, African Americans, Exhibitions
2006
Kerry James Marshall
Exhibitions, Painting, exhibitions
2012

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Okwui Enwezor ranks 6,975 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Anderson, Cyril Montana, Sipan Shiraz, Anna Burns, Rudolfo Anaya, and Alice Oseman. After him are Sarojini Sahoo, Fabio Volo, Mabel Strickland, Conrad Richter, Delia Grigore, and J. Hillis Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Okwui Enwezor ranks 819. Before him are Krisztina Morvai, Marco Marin, Gerhard Haidacher, Roberto Galia, Mark Wright, and Mark Oliver Everett. After him are Torsten Voss, Brian Robbins, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Brain, Dale Hawerchuk, and Dmitri Galiamin. Among people deceased in 2019, Okwui Enwezor ranks 600. Before him are David Bellamy, Lisa Sheridan, Andrea Levy, Denise Nickerson, Nipsey Hussle, and Junior Agogo. After him are Josip Zovko, Justin Raimondo, Yulia Nachalova, Alan Krueger, Josef Šural, and Heidi Mohr.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Okwui Enwezor ranks 113 out of 309. Before him are Chukwudi Iwuji (1975), Mutiu Adepoju (1970), Ikechukwu Uche (1984), Fela Sowande (1905), Cyprian Ekwensi (1921), and Ayila Yussuf (1984). After him are Muhammadu Maccido (1928), Michael Olowokandi (1975), Adebayo Adedeji (1930), Nneka (1980), Augustine Eguavoen (1965), and Michael Emenalo (1965).

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Among WRITERS In Nigeria

Among writers born in Nigeria, Okwui Enwezor ranks 10. Before him are Amos Tutuola (1920), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), Buchi Emecheta (1944), Flora Nwapa (1931), Ben Okri (1959), and Cyprian Ekwensi (1921). After him are Chris Abani (1966), Sefi Atta (1964), and Helen Oyeyemi (1984).

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