Elvira Dyangani Ose to inaugurate the UAB's 2021/22 academic year

Dyangani Ose earned her BA in History of Art from the UAB and her PhD from Cornell Univeristy in New York. She is professor of the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and before that was director of the London art gallery The Showroom. She is member of the advisory board at the Tate Modern and of the Thought Council of the Fondazione Prada, in Milan, where she curated several projects. Some of the most outstanding projects included exhibits of Theaster Gates,True Value; Nástio Mosquito, T.T.T. Template Temples of Tenacity, and Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer. Up until 2018, she was Senior Curator at Creative Time, where she directed her eleventh edition of the summit entitled De Archipiélagos y Otros Imaginarios. Estrategias Colectivas para Habitar el Mundo, and many other projects.

She was the commissioner of the 8th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA 2015) and was curator of international art at the Tate Modern (2011–2014), and before that commissioner at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, as well as artistic director of the Rencontres Picha of hte Lubumbashi Biennial (2013). Her projects are multidisciplinary and aimed at observing the narration of a story as a collective experience, interventions in public spaces and the recovery of non-Western narratives and epistemologies, including: A Story Within A Story... (2015), Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist (2013), Across the Board (2012–2014), Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies (2010), Arte Invisible (2009, 2010), and Olvida Quién Soy/Erase Me From Who I Am (2006). As a specialist in modern African art, she also teaches seminars and participates in conferences related to artistic productions and contemporary African cultures.