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Jayne
H. Baum
Susanna Cole and Erin Donnelly
Elena Filipovic
Ingrid LaFleur
Trong G. Nguyen
Olu Oguibe
Chika Okeke
Sandhini Poddar
Praxis
Ashkan Sahihi
Marketa Uhlirova
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Emily Jacir
Chika Okeke
About the curator
Chika Okeke is currently an Assitant Professor of Art History at Penn
State University. He has published articles and reviews in African
Arts, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Glendora
Review. He contributed to edited volumes such as Reading the
Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The
Nsukka Artists and Contemporary Nigerian Art, and The Grove Dictionary
of Art. In addition to writing catalogue essays, he has co-organized
several exhibitions, including the Nigerian Pavilion at the First
Johannesburg Biennale, 1995; Seven Stories About Modern Art in
Africa (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1995); and The Short
Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994
(Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2001). In 2002 he served as Academic Consultant
for Documenta 11 as well as coordinator of its Platform 4
conference in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2004, he co-curated and wrote catalogue
essays for the Fifth Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, and Strange
Planet, Georgia State University Art Gallery. Okeke serves as a Senior
Editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, co-published
by Cornell University.
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