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Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi

Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi
Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi by Caleb Kenna (cropped).jpg
Nzewi in 2013
Born Nigeria
Occupation Artist, art historian, curator

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi is an artist, art historian, and curator. He is currently Curator of African Art at Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art. He studied under El Anatsui at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, traveled as an artist and curator, and completed his doctorate at Emory University in 2013. He has curated the Nigerian Afrika Heritage Biennial three times, the Dak'Art biennial in 2014, and independent exhibitions at Atlanta's High Museum of Art and New York's Richard Taittinger Gallery. Nzewi also exhibited internationally as an artist and artist-in-resident.

Nzewi was born in Nigeria and raised in Enugu. He studied sculpture with El Anatsui at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where Nzewi received a bachelor's degree in fine and applied art in 2001. After graduating, he traveled internationally for six years as an independent artist and curator. In this time, he curated the Nigerian Afrika Heritage Biennial three times. He later said that his travel experiences made him sympathetic to artists. In 2006, Nzewi moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked on a yearlong postgraduate program in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Western Cape while serving as an artist-in-residence in . The next year, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to begin a doctorate degree in art history at Emory University, which he completed in May 2013. He wrote his dissertation on the Dak'Art biennial's influence on contemporary African art. The following August, Nzewi became the Dartmouth College Hood Museum of Art's first curator of African art. During his doctoral years, he curated at Atlanta's High Museum (2009) and received Robert Sterling Clark and Smithsonian fellowships.


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