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Okwui Enwezor is a〔http://blog.thisisbase.com/2009/04/interview-with-okwui-enwezor-part-2/〕 Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He lives in New York〔(Rutger Pontzen, ''I have a global antenna'' (Interview with Okwui Enwezor) in "Virtual Museum Of Contemporary African Art" )〕 and Munich. In 2014, he was ranked 24 in the ArtReview list of the 100 most powerful people of the art world.〔 〕 == Biography == Okwui Enwezor (pronounced en-WAY-zor)〔Celestine Bohlen (February 12, 2002), (A Global Vision For a Global Show; Documenta Curator Sees Art As Expression of Social Change ) ''New York Times''.〕 was born as the youngest son of an affluent family of Igbos in Awkuzu in Nigeria in 1963.〔Zeke Turner (September 8, 2014), (How Okwui Enwezor Changed the Art World ) ''Wall Street Journal''.〕 In 1982, after a semester at the University of Nigeria, Enwezor moved to the Bronx at the age of 18.〔〔Roberta Smith (October 28, 1998), (Nigerian to Direct Next Documenta ) ''New York Times''.〕 In 1987 he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political sciences at the New Jersey City University. When Enwezor graduated, he moved downtown and took up poetry. He performed at the Knitting Factory and the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village.〔 Enwezor's study of poetry led him through language-based art forms like Conceptual Art to art criticism.〔 Teaming up in 1993 with fellow African critics Chika Okeke-Agulu and Salah Hassan, he launched the triannual ''Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art'' from his Brooklyn apartment; Nka is an Igbo word that means art but also connotes to make, to create.〔 He recruited scholars and artists such as Olu Oguibe to edit the inaugural issue and write for it.〔 After putting on a couple of small museum shows, Enwezor had his breakthrough in 1996 as a curator of ''In/sight'', an exhibit of 30 African photographers at the Guggenheim Museum.〔 Adam Shatz (June 2, 2002), (Okwui Enwezor's Really Big Show ) ''New York Times Magazine''. 〕 ''In/sight'' was one of the first shows anywhere to put contemporary art from Africa in the historical and political context of colonial withdrawal and the emergence of independent African states.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Okwui Enwezor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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