Okwui Enwezor, an influential Nigerian curator whose large-scale exhibitions displaced European and American art from its central position as he forged a new approach to art for a global age, died on Friday in Munich. He was 55.
Enwezor was a founding editor of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, whose editorial offices are located at Cornell University, and whose editors include Salah M. Hassan, Distinguished Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, Professor of African and African Diaspora art history in the Department of History of Art, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM), Cornell University. Enwezor served as member of the advisory board of ICM.
The cause was cancer, said Enwezor’s partner, Louise Neri. In ambitious, erudite, carefully argued exhibitions staged in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States, Mr. Enwezor (pronounced en-WEH-zore) presented contemporary art against a backdrop of world history and cultural exchange.
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Article published on March 19, 2019, on Page A24 of the New York Times edition
