Kevin D. Dumouchelle joined the National Museum of African Art in October 2016. He was the project lead for Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts (2017), the museum’s award-winning presentation of its permanent collection, along with chief curator Christine Mullen Kreamer and curator Karen E. Milbourne. He was the coordinating curator for Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange in Medieval Saharan Africa (2020), World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean (2018), and Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women (2018). Previously, Dumouchelle was at the Brooklyn Museum for a decade as the curator in charge of the arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands. There, he conceived two award-winning reinstallations of the African collection: African Innovations (2014) and Double Take: African Innovations (2014). He has written books and articles and curated a range of exhibitions on contemporary and historical African art, including Power Incarnate: Allan Stone’s Collection of Sculpture from the Congo (2011) at the Bruce Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum presentations of Gravity and Grace Monumental Works by El Anatsui (2013) and Disguise: Masks and Global African Art (2016). Dumouchelle has a doctorate, Master of Philosophy, and master of arts in art history and archaeology from Columbia University.

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