Osei Bonsu

Osei Bonsu is a British-Ghanaian curator, writer, and art historian based in London. He currently serves as the Jorge M. Pérez Senior Curator of International Art, Africa and Diaspora, at Tate Modern, where is a responsible for shaping the museum’s international exhibitions programme, collection strategy, and curatorial research. At Tate Modern, Bonsu has organized major exhibitions and commissions including A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography (2023), El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon (2024), and Nigerian Modernism: Art and Independence (2025). He has also strengthened the museum’s international collection of African and African diaspora art through key acquisitions and collection displays. As a writer and researcher, Bonsu is the author of numerous essays, interviews, and publications, including the landmark survey African Art Now (Ilex/Tate Publishing, 2023). His scholarship engages with postcolonial approaches to history-making and the development of global and transnational modernisms, with a particular emphasis on artists from Africa and the Global South. Among his recognitions, Bonsu was named by Apollo Magazine as one of the leading African voices in the art world (2020), and in 2023 was awarded the Visionary Initiatives in the Visual Arts (VIA) Fellowship. Bonsu has contributed to the field more broadly through service on several advisory boards and international committees, including the Contemporary Art Society and the Artes Mundi Prize. He holds an MA in History of Art from University College London and a BA in Curatorial Studies from Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London.

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