Curatorial Intensive Addis Ababa 2014

Born of Kabuye Benedict family, Balimunsi Philip is the curator of Uganda National Cultural Centre and the Uganda National Gallery known as Nommo gallery.

Helen Carey is Director/Curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.

Makeda Damtew is a curator and assistant lecturer at Addis Ababa University Alle School of Fine Arts and Design.

Mohamed Hussein is a freelance artist, curator and designer from Baghdad.

Mihret Kebede is an artist/poet, who graduated from Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts and Design in painting with distinction in 2007 and has earned her MA in arts from the same school in 2016.

Wanja Kimani is a visual artist and writer based in Northamptonshire, UK.

Anna Kućma is a Kampala-based independent Polish curator, writer, and art project manager.

Georgina Maxim studied Creative Art and Design and Applied Art and Design with Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe.

Jillian Schultz, originally from Chicago, recently relocated to Los Angeles after five years in Beijing, China.

Fitsum Shebeshe is a curator and painter based in Baltimore and Washington DC.

Zoma Wallace is a curator, arts administrator, and experimental artist living and working in her hometown of Washington, DC.

Renaud Proch is Independent Curators International (ICI)’s Executive & Artistic Director.

María del Carmen Carrión is an independent curator and art critic from Quito, who received an MA from the Curatorial Practice Program at California College of the Arts, in San Francisco, and taught at Universidad Católica in Quito.

Naima J. Keith joined the California African American Museum (CAAM) in 2016 to guide the curatorial and education departments as well as marketing and communications.

Meskerem Assegued is an anthropologist, curator, and writer. In 2002, she founded ZCAC (Zoma Contemporary Art Center), an artist residency located in Addis Ababa and Harla, a small village south of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.

Riason Naidoo is an independent South African curator, living in Paris since 2018.

Konjit Seyoum (b. 1963 Addis Ababa) is a freelance conference interpreter who was trained at the School of Interpretation and Translation at the University of Trieste, Italy.

Raphael Chikukwa is the Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, where he served as Chief Curator of Contemporary Art and Deputy Director from 2010 to 2020.

Jimmy Ogonga is an artist and producer, working intermittently between art production and curatorial practice.

Elvira Dyangani Ose is the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). 

Tracey Rose is an artist, currently living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa.