AINDREA EMELIFE

NEW-GEN ART CURATOR AND HISTORIAN, PRESENTER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF ELLE MAGAZINE, FROM LONDON. 2024 CURATOR OF THE NIGERIA PAVILLION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE.

Aindrea Emelife has led a number of high-profile projects with a focus on modern and contemporary art, dedicated to investigating colonial and decolonial histories in Africa with her recent exhibitions include Black Venus, a survey of the legacy of the Black woman in visual culture. Aindrea has quickly gone on to become a groundbreaking new voice in the art world otherwise steeped in tradition and has been featured in programming on Sky Arts and presented art films for such prestigious institutions as the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hepworth Wakefield and the Courtauld.

Emelife’s first book, A Brief History of Protest Art, was published by Tate Publishing in March 2022. Emelife is currently working on her second book, to be published by Thames & Hudson in 2024. Emelife has collaborated with a number of fashion brands, including Valentino, Chanel and Miu Miu as well as with press in Net A Porter and Google, on a collaboration with Kehinde Wiley.