LC control no. | n 2009023222 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Kouoh, Koyo |
See also | Employer: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa |
Associated country | Cameroon |
Associated place | Cape Town (South Africa) Dakar (Senegal) Senegal South Africa Switzerland Mali England |
Birth date | 1967 |
Field of activity | Art, Modern Exhibitions |
Affiliation | RAW Material Company Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa |
Profession or occupation | Art museum curators Art museum directors |
Found in | Hypocrisy, c2009: p. 105 (Koyo Kouoh]) Issa Samb, c2012: t.p. (Koyo Kouoh) p. 3 (b. 1967; lives and works in Dakar, Senegal; founding artistic director of Raw Material Company) ARTnews (online), Koyo Kouoh appointed executive director and chief curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, March 4, 2019, viewed October 19, 2020 (will start her new position on May 6; previously worked as an independent curator; was founding artistic director of RAW Material Company in Dakar, Senegal, and curator of the exhibition program for London's 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair) Wikipedia, October 19, 2020 (Koyo Kouoh; Cameroonian-born curator; she lives and works in Cape Town; grew up in Douala, studied business administration and banking in Switzerland as well as cultural management in France; she is fluent in French, German, English and Italian; in 2001 and 2003 she served as co-curator with writer Simon Njami on Bamako Encounters (Rencontres de Bamako), a photography biennial held in Mali; from 2008 until 2019 she served as founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, a center for art, knowledge and society in Dakar) |
Associated language | eng fre ger ita |