Okwui Enwezor


Okwui Enwezor is a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He lives in New York and Munich. In 2014, he was rankedin the ArtReview list of the 100 most powerful people of the art world.

Okwui Enwezor was born as the youngest son of an affluent family of Igbos in Awkuzu in Nigeria in 1963. In 1982, after a semester at the University of Nigeria, Enwezor moved to the Bronx at the age of 18. In 1987 he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political sciences at the New Jersey City University.

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