Bisi Silva Director and Chief Curator Center for Contemporary Art Lagos
| Olabisi Obafunke Silva | |
|---|---|
 Bisi Silva (2012) | |
| Born | (1962-05-29)May 29, 1962 |
| Died | Feb 12, 2019(2019-02-12) (aged 56) Lagos, Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Alma mater | Royal College of Art, London |
| Known for | Founding the Centre for Gimmicky Art, Lagos; founding the Asiko Art Schoolhouse |
Bisi Silva (Olabisi Obafunke Silva) (29 May 1962 – 12 February 2019)[1] was a Nigerian contemporary art curator based in Lagos.
Biography [edit]
Bisi Silva graduated with an MA in Visual Arts Assistants: Curating and Commissioning Gimmicky Art at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1996. In the early days of her career, Silva worked every bit an independent curator and founded Quaternary Dial Art, a non-profit projection in London defended to promoting and cultivating cultural exercise in the visual arts, and to aid artists form meaningful collaborations with artistic institutions and professionals. One of the outcomes of 4th Dial Art was a traveling exhibition, Heads of State, featuring the work of Faisal Abdu'Allah, who was and then an emerging artist of the London art world.[2]
She visited Lagos, Nigeria in 1999 with the idea of starting a project there.[3] Silva was the founder and creative director of the Centre for Contemporary Fine art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos), which opened in Dec 2007. CCA Lagos promotes research, documentation and exhibitions related to contemporary art in Africa and abroad. At CCA, Lagos, Silva curated numerous exhibitions, including ane with the Nigerian painter Ndidi Dike. Silva was also the founder of the Asiko Art Schoolhouse, which describes itself as "part art workshop, office residency, and part fine art academy."[4]
She was co-curator of The Progress of Love, a transcontinental collaboration across three venues in the U.s.a. and Nigeria (October 2012 – January 2013). Silva was co-curator of J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere: Moments of Beauty, Kiasma, Helsinki (Apr – November 2011). She was also co-curator for the second Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece, Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty in September 2009. In 2006, Silva was one of the curators for the Dakar Biennale in Senegal. In collaboration with the Portuguese fine art critic Isabel Carlos, she selected artists for the 3rd Artes Mundi prize in Wales. She too curated Contact Zone: Gimmicky Art from West and N Africa (Oct 2007) and an exhibition titled Telling ... Gimmicky Finnish photography, in the 7th Biennial of African Photography in Bamako (November 2007).
Silva wrote on contemporary art for international publications, including Art Monthly, Untitled, 3rd Text, M City, Agufon and for Nigerian newspapers such as This Twenty-four hour period. She was on the editorial board of north.paradoxa, an international feminist art journal, and was the invitee editor for the Africa and African diaspora issue of north.paradoxa (January 2013).
Silva died in Lagos, Nigeria, at the age of 56 after a four-yr battle with breast cancer.
Curators Nina Zimmer and Touria El Glaoui named Silva amid the decade's about influential curators.[five]
Exhibitions curated or co-curated [edit]
2009 [edit]
- In the Lite of Play, Durban Fine art Gallery and Johannesburg Art Fair
- Run a risk Encounters, Seven Gimmicky Artists from Africa, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai India e Sakshi Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
- Similar A Virgin ..., Lucy Azubuike (NIG) and Zanele Muholi (SA), CCA, Lagos
- Praxis: Art in Times of Dubiety, Second Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Fine art, Hellenic republic
- Maputo: A tale of One Urban center, Oslo, part of the Africa in Oslo flavor.
2008 [edit]
- George Osodi, Paradise Lost: Revisiting the Niger Delta, CCA, Lagos
- Ndidi Dike, Waka-into-bondage: The Terminal ¾ Mile, CCA, Lagos
2007 [edit]
- Fela, Ghariokwu Lemi and The Art of the Anthology Cover, CCA, Lagos
- Contact Zone: Contemporary Art from West and North Africa, National Museum of Republic of mali
- Telling... Gimmicky Finnish photography, Settima Biennale di Fotografia Africana, Bamako
2006 [edit]
- Dak'Art, Biennale di Dakar, Senegal
Bibliography [edit]
- Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe: Mixed Race Studies: A Reader — Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0-415-32163-8
References [edit]
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (25 Feb 2019). "Bisi Silva, 56, Bold Curator of Contemporary African Art, Dies". nytimes.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ^ Chambers, Eddie (November 2019). "Olabisi Obafunke Silva: In Memoriam (1962-2019)". Nka: Periodical of Contemporary African Fine art. 45: iv–six – via Projection MUSE.
- ^ Moses, Serubiri. "Bisi Silva: fourth dimension remembered". Africa is a Land.
- ^ Greenberger, Alex (13 February 2019). "Bisi Silva, Founding Creative Director of Center for Contemporary Fine art, Lagos, Has Died at 57". ARTnews . Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Who Was the Nigh Influential Curator of the Decade? Dozens of Art-World Experts Told Us Their Judgment, and Why". Artnet News. December 24, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
External links [edit]
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bisi Silva. |
- Bisi Silva's blog
- Center for Gimmicky Art, Lagos
- Bisi Silva on powerofculture.nl Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Automobile
- Bisi Silva Obituary On NaijaGists.com
- Bisi Silva Obituary, Artforum, 12 March 2019
- Bisi Silva remembered in Aperture. ane Feb 2019
- On AICA website, United kingdom Archived 2019-04-04 at the Wayback Auto
- On Art Throb, Southward Africa
- On Africa's Country
- Arts Quango of African studies Clan
- Art Africa Magazine
- ContemporaryAnd tribute
- Nigerian Tribune
- Jumoke Sanwo Bisi Silva 1962–2019 African Arts: The MIT Press Book 52, Number 4, Winter 2019
- In Memoriam: Okwui Enwezor and Bisi Silva
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisi_Silva
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