Elvira Dyangani Ose is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College,
University of London, London, and curator of the 2015 Göteborg International
Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg. Between 2011–2014, She was Curator of International
Art at Tate Modern, where she assumed a leading role in developing the museum’s
holdings of art from Africa and its diaspora, working closely with the Africa
Acquisitions Committee. Previously, she was curator at the Centro Atlántico de
Arte Moderno (2004–2006) and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
(2006–2008), where she organized several exhibitions including works by, among
others, General Idea, Viennese Actionism, Alfredo Jaar, and Ábalos & Herreros.
While at Tate, Dyangani Ose was
also responsible for Across the Board (2012–2014), a two-year
interdisciplinary project that took place in London, Accra, Douala, and Lagos. In addition to serving as the Artistic
Director of the third edition
of the Recontres Picha. Lubumbashi
Biennial in 2013, her
recent curatorial work includes: Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist, Tate Modern, London, 2013; Carrie Mae Weems: Social
Studies, Centro Andaluz de
Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, 2010; Salon
Urbaine de Douala, SUD, Doual’art, Douala, 2010 (with Simon Njami and Koyo
Kouoh); Arte inVisible / inVisible Art,
ARCOmadrid, Madrid, 2009–2010; Bienvenidos
al Paraiso / Nontsikelelo Veleko, Casa Africa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
2009; and the interdisciplinary project Attempt to Exhaust an African Place (2007–2008). Dyangani Ose lives and
works in London. [Last updated 2015]