Four BIPOC Curators Selected for Inaugural Okwui Enwezor Fellowship Program

In a new initiative honoring the late curator Okwui Enwezor, who passed away in 2019, four curators have been appointed as the inaugural fellows. The program, revealed by Steve McQueen in January, seeks to reshape prevailing art narratives by emphasizing African art. From a pool of over 140 BIPOC candidates, the selected fellows are Anaïs Duplan, Negarra A. Kudumu, Marie Hélène Pereira, and Ronald Rose-Antoinette, each awarded a stipend of $10,000 along with research assistance. Duplan is the founder of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies and wrote 'Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture.' Kudumu explores art and healing, Pereira co-curated the 2018 Dakar Biennale, and Rose-Antoinette has organized exhibitions in Montreal. McQueen stated that the initiative reflects Enwezor's legacy.