Heroes: Principles of African Greatness

About Kevin D. Dumouchelle

Kevin D. Dumouchelle joined the National Museum of African Art in October 2016. He was the project lead for Visionary: Viewpoints on Africas Arts (2017) the museums 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 Stones 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.