Larry Ossei-Mensah

Independent Curator

Larry Ossei-Mensah is a Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic who uses contemporary art and culture as a forum to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. Ossei-Mensah has organized exhibitions, conversations, and programs with commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe featuring artists such as Firelei Baez, Steve McQueen, Amoako Boafo, Catherine Opie, Nick Cave, Cheryl Pope, Guadalupe Maravilla, Ebony G. Patterson, Judy Chicago, Allison Janae Hamilton, Zeh Palito, and Stanley Whitney, to name a few. The global venues Ossei-Mensah has collaborated with on exhibitions include such spaces as MOAD in San Francisco, the Contemporary at Museum in Houston, MOCAD, MASS MoCA, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, LUCE Gallery Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hong Kong & London, MCA Denver, and the 7th Athen Biennale in Athens, Greece, which he co-curated with OSMK Social Club. A native of The Bronx, Ossei-Mensah co-founded ARTNOIR, a nonprofit whose mission is to drive racial equity in the art world by centering creatives, curators, collectors, and communities of color.

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