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Olu Oguibe
is associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History
where he teaches studio and art theory. He graduated summa cum laude
and valedictorian at the University of Nigeria in 1986, and received
his PH.D. in the history of contemporary art from the University
of London in 1992. Since then he has taught at the School of Oriental
and African Studies, and Goldsmiths College, both of the University
of London, as well as the University of Illinois at Chicago and
the University of South Florida where he held the Stuart Golding
Endowed Chair in African art. His last position was as a senior
fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School,
New York. Oguibe has published several books and articles on art,
among them Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West (1995), and
the edited volumes Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory
to the Marketplace (1999) and Authentic/ Ex-Centric: Conceptualism
in Contemporary African Art (2000). His contributions have also
appeared in key volumes such as the Dictionary of Art, Art History
and its Methods, The Visual Culture Reader, The Third Text Reader
on Art, Culture and Theory, and Black British Culture: A Reader.
In addition he has organized art exhibitions for major museums and
galleries including the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London and the
municipal museum of Mexico City. His own art has also been exhibited
in museums and galleries around the world including the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum of American
Art. Oguibe's many awards include a senior fellowship of the Rockefeller
Study and Conference Center in Bellagio (1999) and the Christopher
Okigbo All-Africa Prize for Literature (1992). His most recent book
is The Culture Game (University of Minnesota Press, 2003.)
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