Ouattara Watts

Ouattara Watts, Spiritual Gangster 02, 2023. Mixed media on canvas, 111 × 120⅛ in. (281.94 × 305.13 cm)

A Conversation: Ouattara Watts
with Tiffany E. Barber, Natasha Becker, and Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi
at Karma Los Angeles
Saturday, March 2, 4-5 pm

Karma

7351 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

Karma presents a conversation between scholar and curator Tiffany E. Barber and curator Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi moderated by curator Natasha Becker, on the occasion of Ouattara Watts’s exhibition at 7351 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, on view from January 19–March 16, 2024.

Tiffany E. Barber is currently Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California-Los Angeles as well as curator-in-residence at the Delaware Contemporary. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, she was Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware. She has completed fellowships at ArtTable, the Delaware Art Museum, the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, and the Getty Research Institute. Dr. Barber is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize.

Natasha Becker is a curator focused on presenting the work of African artists, African American artists, and artists of the African diaspora. Working in both Cape Town and New York City over the past decade, she has organized numerous exhibitions and international initiatives as an independent curator. Prior to joining the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Museums, she served as curator-in-residence at Faction Art Projects in Harlem. Becker is also cofounder of two collaborative curatorial platforms: Assembly Room in New York City and the Underline Show in Johannesburg.

Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi is a curator and writer based in Los Angeles. He currently holds the position of curatorial associate at the Hammer Museum and serves on the editorial board of X-TRA.