Yesomi Umolu

Yesomi Umolu (born 1984, lagos) is a curator and artist that lives in chicago. Umolu is Director and Curator at Logan Center Exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. She was the Artistic Director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
 
==Early life and education==
yesomi Umolu was born and brought up in Lagos Nigeria, till when she was ten that she moved to london where she spent Most of her life. Umolu earned a master's degree in architectural design from the University of Edinburgh as well as a master's degree in art curation from Royal College of Art, London.
==Career==
She currently holds a head position at the University of Chicago, taking the role of an exhibitions curator for the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, while lecturing in the division humanities, and researches ways to gratify University of Chicago's architecture and contemporary art output.
Before she starts her work at the University of Chicago, Umolu also curated highly commended shows at Michigan State University's Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Minneapolis' Walker Art Center and the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 2011, she was curator -in-residence at Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen and co-resident at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. 
Umolu device a program of international contemporary art in the Logan Center Gallery. she worked in other several international universities as either a visiting lecturer, speaker or critic as well as contribution to seminars and conferences, these universities includes; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills; Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London Goldsmiths University, London and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Umolu's other prestigious exhibitions include: Material Effects (MSU Broad, 2015), John Akomfrah: Imaginary Possessions (MSU Broad, 2014), The Land Grant: Forest Law (MSU Broad, 2014), and The Museum of Non Participation: The New Deal (Walker Art Center, 2013).
===Positions===
Yesomi Umolu was artistic director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial. She is currently the exhibitions curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. Recently Umolu was appointed to be part of the 6th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia as curatorial advisory board for the United States Pavilion an exhibition commissioned by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. Umolu is also part of the board of trustees at the Graham Foundation, Chicago. 
In 2018, Umolu served as a Center LOI panelist in Exhibitions & Public. 
Prior to joining the Logan, Umolu held curatorial positions at the Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the European biennial of contemporary art Manifesta 8 – the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. 
She has held positions as a Curatorial Assistant for Chamber of Public Secrets at Manifesta 8, Region of Murcia (2010), Public Programmes Assistant at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2009-2010) and Project Coordinator at Tate Modern, London (2005-2008).
==Awards==
In 2016, Umolu was awarded a curatorial fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
==Books==
Umolu with the specialty in contemporary art curated;
# Candice Lin and Yesomi Umolu, A Hard White Body,Lotte Arndt.
# Kapwani Kiwang,Yesomi Umolu Editor.
# The Years Now, Yesomi Umolu Editor.
==In the media==
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==Reference==
== External links ==
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* Yesomi Umolu on linkedin
* Yesomi Umolu | Department of Art History
* On the Limits of Care and Knowledge: 15 Points Museums Must Understand to Dismantle Structural Injustice
* Interview with Yesomi Umolu | 2018-03-19 | Architectural Record
* Yesomi Umolu named artistic director for Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019
* Soho House Chicago | 360˚Me: Yesomi Umolu
Category:1984 births
Category:Curators
Category:Artists
Category:University of Chicago faculty
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art