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Kevin D. Dumouchelle
Assistant Curator (Interim), Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands
Kevin D. Dumouchelle joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2007, and was promoted to Assistant Curator (Interim) for the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands in winter 2008. He contributed to the writing and editing of a major catalogue of works in the African collection, African Art: A Century at the Brooklyn Museum, published by the Brooklyn Museum in association with DelMonico Books • Prestel in fall 2009. Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, he co-curated Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea at the Sean Kelly Gallery, and served as a consultant on African art. His publications include works on both contemporary photography and canonical African sculpture. Kevin Dumouchelle earned an M.A. and M.Phil in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, where he is currently completing his Ph.D. He has pursued research in Morocco, Mali, and Ghana. He is also the recipient of a first-class Master’s degree in history from Oxford University, where he wrote on architecture and memory in Ghana, and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. He has previously contributed to the Chronicle of Philanthropy and the Washington Post.
Assistant Curator (Interim), Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands
Kevin D. Dumouchelle joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2007, and was promoted to Assistant Curator (Interim) for the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands in winter 2008. He contributed to the writing and editing of a major catalogue of works in the African collection, African Art: A Century at the Brooklyn Museum, published by the Brooklyn Museum in association with DelMonico Books • Prestel in fall 2009. Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, he co-curated Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea at the Sean Kelly Gallery, and served as a consultant on African art. His publications include works on both contemporary photography and canonical African sculpture. Kevin Dumouchelle earned an M.A. and M.Phil in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, where he is currently completing his Ph.D. He has pursued research in Morocco, Mali, and Ghana. He is also the recipient of a first-class Master’s degree in history from Oxford University, where he wrote on architecture and memory in Ghana, and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. He has previously contributed to the Chronicle of Philanthropy and the Washington Post.
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