Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art Mourns the Loss of Friend and Former Advisory Board Member Okwui Enwezor, a Lion of the Art World.

The staff of the National Museum of African Art expresses heartfelt condolences on the passing of Okwui Enwezor, world-renowned contemporary art curator. Enwezor served on the advisory board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C. from 2008 to 2013.

“Okwui Enwezor was a giant. A unique and singular talent who re-mapped our discipline, redefining its scope and ambition, recalibrating the quality of intellectual discourse and forcing the reconsideration of the moral landscape within which it all sits,” said Gus Casely-Hayford, director of the museum. “And as everyone who knew him will tell you, he did so with profound kindness, sensitivity and humility. We will miss him.”