Bisi Silva | International Curator
Bisi Silva, 56, Bold Curator of Contemporary African Art, Dies Source | NY TIMES https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/obituaries/bisi-silva-dead.html Bisi Silva in Central Park during a trip to New York in 2016. “Twenty, 25 years ago, curators of contemporary art might have been completely and totally scared of going to ‘the Dark Continent,’ ” she said. “Now it’s like, ‘Oh, Bisi, I want to go to Lagos, I want to go to Ghana.’ Photo by Gabriela Herman for The New York Times Article By Richard Sandomir Feb. 25, 2019 Bisi Silva, an adventurous curator who, with her own money, founded a nonprofit art gallery and education center in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, that has nurtured the growth and recognition of contemporary African artists, died on Feb. 12 in a hospital there. She was 56. Her sister Joke Silva, an actress, said the cause was breast cancer. Ms. Silva started the Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos in 2007 and made it a hub for bold and experimental sculpture, p