Sylvester Ogbechie

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie is a Nigerian-American art historian, artist, and curator. He is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines African and African Diaspora arts, modern and contemporary art, cultural informatics, and African cultural patrimony. Ogbechie founded the journal Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, and organized the first conference in the United States to explore the Nigerian film industry in 2005. He is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts Research as well as a Fellow/Consortium Professor of the Getty Research Institute, senior fellow of the Smithsonian Institution, Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Fellow of the Institute of International Education. His publications include Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (2008) and Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art Collection (2011).

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