Yesomi Umolu Takes Top Serpentine Galleries

Yesomi Umolu has been appointed Director of Curatorial Affairs and Public Practice at Serpentine. Umolu has published extensively on how to talk about structural racism in museums. Her direction will develop editorial and educational content for exhibitions, events, and other curatorial initiatives. The aim is to make Serpentine programs more inclusive and accessible to all audiences, both physical and digital.

Serpentine CEO Bettina Korek and artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist said, “Yesomi’s appointment reinforces a structural trajectory for the organization that fuses curatorial affairs and public practice. We are excited to work with her to innovate around centering audience experience and community engagement in all that we do.”

Yesomi Umolu is currently Director and Curator, Logan Center Exhibitions at the University of Chicago, where she leads a program of international contemporary art. She also teaches contemporary visual art and spatial practices as a lecturer in the humanities division. She was between 2018 and 2020 Artistic Director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial

She will take up the role in January 2021.
More information: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org

*Image Caption: Yesomi Umolu © Nicolette Nunez