Kevin D. Dumouchelle
Assistant Curator, Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands
Kevin D. Dumouchelle joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2007, and was promoted to Assistant Curator for the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands in 2008. He is the curator of a major reinstallation of the Museum’s African collection, titled African Innovations (August 2011). Other exhibitions he has curated include Power Incarnate: Allan Stone’s Collection of Sculpture from the Congo at the Bruce Museum, where he was a guest curator. 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. His other publications include works on architecture, canonical African sculpture, and contemporary photography. Dumouchelle earned an M.A. and M.Phil in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, where he has taught art history and is currently completing his Ph.D. He has pursued research in Morocco, Mali, and Ghana and was the recipient of a first-class Master’s degree in history from Oxford University and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
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