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Larry Ossei-Mensah uses art as a forum to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator, cultural critic, and angel investor has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces featuring artists such as Firelei Baez, Steve McQueen, Catherine Opie, Nick Cave, Guadalupe Maravilla, Rodney McMillan, Genevieve Gaignard, Judy Chicago, Stanley Whitney, to name a few. He has also collaborated on several Web3-related projects with creatives such as Derrick Adams x Jay-Z, Marco Brambilla, and Mikael Owunna. The global venues Ossei-Mensah has collaborated with on exhibitions include such spaces as The MCA Denver, Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hong Kong & London, MASS MoCA, and the 7th Athen Biennale in Athens, Greece, which he co-curated with OSMK Social Club. Ossei-Mensah is also the former Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAD), Detroit. Currently, he serves as Curator-at-Large at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Ossei-Mensah also curated Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo’s first museum solo exhibition, Soul of Black Folks, at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in 2021, San Francisco, and the Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2022. Upcoming iterations of the show will be on view at the Seattle Art Museum and Denver Art Museum during the latter part of 2023. 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. Via ARTNOIR, he has worked with brands like UBS, Twitter, Coca-Cola, 1stDibs, and Mailchimp on projects that operated at the intersection of art and culture. Ossei-Mensah has been profiled in publications, including the New York Times, Artsy, WWD, Frieze, Dazed, Robb Report, The Financial Times, and Cultured Magazine. He has also moderated/spoken on panels at Art Basel Miami Beach, The Earn Your Leisure Podcast, and The Fog Art Fair, to name a few. You can follow Ossei-Mensah at @larryosseimensah (Instagram) and @youngglobal on Twitter.
The MEDIUM Group (MEDIUM) is a boutique firm led by curator Larry Ossei-Mensah that helps individuals, brands, nonprofits, and other organizations with curatorial consultancy services. Clients: Beefeater 24; Absolut Vodka; Red Bull; Perrier Sparkling Mineral Water; White Oak Vodka; ZICO; The School of Visual Arts (SVA); Rhode Island School of Design (RISD); MoetHennessy; Under Armour ➤MEDIUM is a boutique firm providing business and curatorial advisory; strategic marketing and project management services ➤Ideate digital and offline experiential marketing activations engineered to create multiple touchpoints for clients (e.g. Art Basel Miami Beach and Frieze) ➤Project manage activations ensuring deliverables and client objectives are achieved ➤Provide digital content curation via the creation, publishing and management of content highlighting the art world's exhibitions, celebrities and lifestyle on branded platforms ➤Serve as a cultural curator actively leveraging relationships with key influencers to access insights and best practices
Partners: Neuehouse, MoetHennessy ARTNOIR is a global collective of culturalists who design experiences aimed to engage this generation’s dynamic and diverse creative class. We offer an alternative perspective to the traditional arts narrative, support the freedom of artistic expression for all, and provide a platform for bold acts of creativity and storytelling. www.artnoir.co
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