Bisi Silva

Bisi Silva is an independent curator and founder/director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos, which opened in December 2007. Silva has participated in several international conferences and symposia and written essays for many publications as well as for international art magazines and journals such as Artforum, M Metropolis, Third Text, and The Exhibitionist, and is on the editorial board of N Paradoxa, an international feminist art journal. In 2010 she was the Independent Curators International (ICI) inaugural touring curator.
Selected curated exhibitions
2011 J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere: Moments of Beauty, Kiasma, Helsinki (co-curator). 2009 Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece (co-curator). 2006 Dakar Biennale, Senegal (co-curator).

Fellowships and Residencies
2012 Getty International Travel Grant to the 100th CAA Conference. Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Programme, Italy. 2011 Clark/Mellon Curatorial Fellowship at Clark Art Institute, MA. 2010 IASPIS Curatorial Residency, Sweden. 2009/2006 HIAP/FRAME, Curatorial Residency, Finland.