Today the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced the lineup for Forum, its educational programming initiative during its New York fair, which will run at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn from May 6 through 8.
Forum will be organized by Koyo Kouoh, the founder and artistic director of RAW Material, an arts center in Dakar. This year’s been a busy one for Kouoh, who also curated EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Performa curator Adrienne Edwards will be joining Kouoh to oversee a performance program, which will include a live video feed between 1:54 in New York and the Dakar Biennale.
The full list of the Forum participants and their respective roles follow below in alphabetical order:
- Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (artist)
- Ifeanyi Awachie (curator of Africa Salon: Yale University’s contemporary African arts and culture festival)
- Omar Victor Diop (artist)
- Andrew Dosunmu (filmmaker based in Nigeria)
- Kevin Dumouchelle (associate curator of Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands at the Brooklyn Museum)
- Adrienne Edwards (curator at Performa and curator-at-large at the Walker Art Center)
- Claude Grunitzky (founder and editor-in-chief of TRUE Africa)
- Nina Keïta (entrepreneur based in Côte d’Ivoire)
- Koyo Kouoh (Forum program curator; artistic director of RAW Material Company, Dakar)
- Karen Milbourne (curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art)
- Dave McKenzie (artist)
- Elinyisia Mosha (journalist based in Tanzania)
- Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (curator of African art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College)
- Shimite Obialor (lawyer and founder of the digital platform Anoko)
- Sharon Obuobi, (founder of Art Accra: West African Contemporary Art Fair)
- Abiola Oke (CEO of Okayafrica)
- Ginny ‘Gingerlynn’ Suss, (copresident of Okayafrica)
- Yesomi Umolu (curator of exhibitions at University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts)
- Deborah Willis (university professor chair, Department of Photography & Imaging, New York University–Tisch School of the Arts)
- Dexter Wimberly (curator)
- Billie Zangewa (artist)