Celebrate the opening of Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts at Art on Hulfish. Born in 1962 and currently working in the Central African Republic, Samuel Fosso is one of the most renowned contemporary artists based in Africa today. This exhibition will focus on key aspects of Fosso’s work as an artist and a photographer, underscoring his practice as an image-maker, commentator, Africanist, and global citizen. Though Fosso is one of the best-known photographers from the African continent on the international scene, this will be the first museum survey of his work in the United States. Learn more about the art on view from the exhibition’s curator, Princeton Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, a specialist in African and African Diaspora art history and theory together with Silma Berrada, Lawrence Chamunorwa, Maia Julis, and Iheanyi Onwuegbucha, students from his fall 2021 course “Post-1945 African Photography.”
(PRINCETON, NJ) This fall the Princeton University Art Museum will present Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts, the first major US survey of one of the most renowned contemporary artists based in Africa today. The exhibition curated by Princeton University Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu with Silma Berrada, Lawrence Chamunorwa, Maia Julis, and Iheanyi Onwuegbucha will be on view at Art on Hulfish in downtown Princeton from November 19 to January 29, 2023, and will offer US audiences an introduction to one of the best-known photographers from the African continent on the international scene.
We drop in on the fall course 'Renaissance Art and Architecture' and see how the Princeton University Art Museum's world-class collections are being used for teaching while the museum's new building is under construction.