Oluremi C OnabanjoOluremi C. Onabanjo is an associate curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The former director of exhibitions and collections for the Walther Collection, New York, Onabanjo has organized exhibitions acrss Africa, Europe, and North America, and managed one of the most significant private collections of photography in the world. In 2017, she cocurated Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art and edited its accompanying publication, which was shortlisted in 2018 for an ICP Infinity Award in Critical Writing and Research. Onabanjo lectures internationally on photography and curatorial practice, and her writing appears in Aperture, The New Yorker, The PhotoBook Review, Tate Etc., as well as publications by the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; among others. A 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grantee, Onabanjo is the editor of the forthcoming photobook Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos (2022). She is a PhD candidate in art history at Columbia University, New York, and holds degrees in visual, material, and museum anthropology from Oxford University, England, and African studies from Columbia University, New York.


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