Elvira Dyangani Ose is Director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Previously, she was Director of The Showroom, London. She is affiliated to the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada. She has previously been Curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London; Artistic Director of Rencontres Picha – Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; Senior Curator at Creative Time in New York; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. She recently joined Tate Modern Advisory Council. Her curatorial projects are of a multidisciplinary nature aimed at observing the telling of history as a collective experience, intervention in public space, and the recovery of non-Western narratives and epistemologies, including Carrie Maes Weems: A Great Turn in the Possible (2022), A Story Within A Story… (2015), Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist (2013), Across the Board (2012–2014), Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies (2010), Arte Invisible (2009, 2010), and Olvida Quien Soy/Erase Me From Who I Am (2006). 

Selected solo exhibitions: Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, M HKA, Antwerp; MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MAXXI, Rome; Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux; Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin; Arnolfini, Bristol. Group exhibitions: MoMA, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, New Museum Triennial, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; La Biennale de Montreal; MEDIACITY Seoul Biennial; 13th Istanbul Biennial; Sharjah Biennial 11; La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Winner of the Abraaj Art Prize, New:Vision Award, CPH:DOX Film Festival, Copenhagen and the Experimental Award at the Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival, Portugal. He is Deutsche Bank’s 2016 Artist of the Year. Selected screenings include Tate Modern, Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, ICA London.