ABOUT BLACK ROCK

Leadership & Staff

Black Rock Global Arts Foundation

Board

Kehinde Wiley
Founder and President
SCOTT ANDRESEN
Treasurer
AUDRY CASUSOL
Board Member

New York

ZOÉ FORTIN
Executive Director, Black Rock Global Arts Foundation

Dakar

Kéwé Lô
Director, Black Rock Sénégal

Year 5 Selection Committee

SOPHIA NAHLI ALISON
artist & former black rock senegal resident
SARAH DIOUF
founder, Tongoro
SERIGNE MBAYE CAMARA
artist
JESSE WILLIAMS
actor & collector
NATALIE FRAZIER ALLEN
founder & CEO, The Arts Empowerment Project.
JERICHO BROWN
poet & professor

Year 4 Selection Committee

LARRY OSSEI-MENSAH
co-founder, ARTNOIR
TUNJI ADENIYI-JONES
artist & former black rock senegal resident
ADAM WEINBERG
director of the Whitney Museum of American Art
ANTWAUN SARGENT
director, Gagosian Gallery
KIMBERLY DREW
director, Pace Gallery
OSEI BONSU
curator of international art at the Tate Modern

Year 3 Selection Committee

Jeffrey Deitch
Curator and Gallerist
Aissa Dione
Textile Designer
Reni Folawiyo
Entrepreneur
Cathia Lawson
Art Collector
Glenn Ligon
Artist
Katherina Olschbaur
Artist & former Black Rock Senegal Resident

Year 2 Selection Committee

Sir David Adjaye OBE
Architect
Amoako Boafo
Artist
Naomi Campbell
Model and Activist
Yagazie Emezi
Artist and 2019 Black Rock Senegal Resident
Christine Kim
Curator, LACMA
Anne Pasternak
Director, The Brooklyn Museum

Year 1 Selection Committee

Swizz Beatz
Artist and Producer
Thelma Golden
Director, Studio Museum in Harlem
Thomas Lax
Curator, The Museum of Modern Art
Christine Riding
Head of the Curatorial Department, The National Gallery in London
Mickalene Thomas
Artist
Carrie Mae Weems
Artist