- Bisi Silva
Bisi Silva is an independent curator and art critic based in
Lagos andLondon .Curator
She is the founder/director of the
Centre for Contemporary Art of Lagos (CCA,Lagos) an arts research, documentation and exhibition space which opened in December 2007. She has worked on visual arts exhibitions in theUnited Kingdom and inWest Africa . She was co-curator for theDakar Biennale in 2006 and curator for projects such as "Heads of State:Faisal Abdu’Allah ", and an interdisciplinary project "Hair Daze: the Cultural Politics of Black Hair - 4 degrees in the Open, Make Believe and Body Adornment".Bisi Silva is co-selector with Portuguese curator
Isabel Carlos of the prestigious international Artist Prize "Artes Mundi 3 " inWales , UK. She is co-curator of "Contact Zone: Contemporary Art from West and North Africa" opening in October 2007. She is also curator of the exhibition "Telling… Contemporary Finnish photography" at the 7th African photography biennale in Bamako in November 2007. She has recently curated "Fela, Ghariokwu Lemi and The Art of the Album Cover" (2007) and "Ndidi Dike , Waka-into-bondage: The Last ¾ Mile" for CCA (Lagos 2008).Written Work
She has written for international art magazines such as "
Art Monthly ", "Untitled ", "Third Text ", "M Metropolis ", "Agufon " and Nigerian newspapers such as "ThisDay ". She is on the editorial board of "N Paradoxa ", an international feminist art journal.Education
She graduated with an MA in Curating of Contemporary Art from the
Royal College of Art , London.External Links
Bisi Silva's blog http://artspeakafrica.blogspot.com/
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