(Photo by Marco Giugliarelli)
Current Exhibition:
‘The Flesh of the Earth’ multidisciplinary group exhibition curated by Enuma Okoro at Hauser & Wirth, 22nd Street, NY. Feb 1 - April 6, 2024
Recent public appearances:
“Curating the Future: Women’s Vision in Art,” panel at In Charge, Diane Von Furstenberg’s International Women’s Day event. March 1, 2024. New York, NY.
Poetry, Prose & Performance for ‘The Flesh of the Earth’ February 3, 2024 at Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street, NY.
Guided exhibition tour of ‘The Flesh of the Earth’ at Hauser & Wirth gallery at 22nd Street, NY. Feb 2, 2024
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, NY, NY, “A Conversation on Feminist Foreign Policy.” September 22, 2023
Basel, Switzerland. Art Basel, “A Body of Work: Artists at the Intersection of Shaping, Claiming and Reimagining Worldviews.” Curated and moderated panel of artists at Art Basel, June 15, 2023
Villa Malta, Rome Italy. With Georgetown University: The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination, May 25-27, 2023
The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. - Financial Times Weekend Festival. In conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates, May 20, 2023
Fotografiska Museum, New York: “Photography and Image-Making in Shaping Narratives of Black Womanhood.” May 9, 2023
Galerie LeLong, New York: Dialogues Series discussion of Ficre Ghebreyesus: I Believe We Are Lost exhibition. May 2, 2023
Past Appearances
Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath: Financial Times Weekend Festival: “Art Towards Activism.” September 3, 2022
Creative Mornings New York: “The Power of a Good Question.” August 5, 2022
Human Rights Watch: “Our Stories as a Lens to the World.” June 2, 2022
The Kennedy Center: “Finding Humanity in a Digital Age.” May, 7, 2022
Kenwood House: FT Festival: “Museums Under Fire: The Challenges Facing Our Favorite Institutions.” September 4, 2021
YPO Paris (Young Presidents’ Organization): “What is Time For?” June 23, 2021
Frieze New York Art Fair Talk: “Do Artists Have a ‘Duty’ to Make Socially Aware Work?” May, 2021
Moody Center for the Arts presents Enuma Okoro & Shirazeh Houshiary. ‘Spirituality and Art.’ April 15, 2020
Enuma Okoro in conversation with Rachel Whiteread, for Financial Times Weekend Digital Spring Festival, March 18th, 2021.
Read Enuma’s Financial Times Weekend column, “The Art of Life” here.
Read True Africa’s interview with Enuma here.
Read Enuma’s Harper’s Bazaar essay: on The Art of Gathering, and Processing an Impossible Year
Read Enuma’s Harper’s Bazaar, March 2021 feature on the African LookBook with Catherine E. McKinley, Edwidge Danticat and Jacqueline Woodson here
Read Enuma’s NYT’s article on art, storytelling, mythology and Black female identity.
Watch Enuma’s TEDx Talk on Global Women and the Invitation of Cultural Collisions.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
“We need to reclaim the power of shaping our own narratives. What it means to be African should be determined by African countries themselves and by each new generation of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora.”
THE GUARDIAN INTERVIEW
“Enuma Okoro was raised in four countries on three continents. It is no surprise that her work focuses increasingly on issues of culture and identity. In this interview she talks about her fascination with cultures and how people form a sense of identity, her belief that story is at the center of everything, and her passion and calling as a writer and storyteller“
TED TALK
“Enuma Okoro explores how people of differing cultures can be at home within a diverse society. She queries the perception of iconic women around the world and proffers that ‘stereotypes come from a modicum of truth but never give us the full answer.”