Oluremi C. Onabanjo is Curator of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a focus on international practices of modern and contemporary photography. From 2021–2026, she worked at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), managing MoMA’s holdings of over 35,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium.
The inaugural recipient of the Vilcek Prize in Curatorial Work, Onabanjo was a 2024 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow and sits on the Board of Instituto Sacatar and the Photography Advisory Board for the Istanbul Modern. Her recent exhibitions and collaborations include A Little Gallery of the Photo-Secession, Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination, Ernest Cole's House of Bondage, Projects: Ming Smith, New Photography 2023, and Visual Vernaculars amongst others.
Prior to MoMA, Onabanjo worked as Director of Exhibitions and Collections of The Walther Collection and served on the curatorial team of the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg (2022). She is the editor of Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos (2022) and author of Ming Smith: Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere (2023). Onabanjo holds a Ph.D. in Art History and a BA in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University, and an MSc in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology from Oxford University.
