On the occasion of Season Africa2020 (December 2020–July 2021), AWARE was part of the “Women Focus ” as envisaged by the General Commissioner N’Goné Fall.

24 new biographies of women artists from Africa and the Diaspora –identified by AWARE’s Africa2020 research committee– as well as 3 research articles were published on the AWARE website.

Following the seminar which took place in November 2020, AWARE hosted the symposium “Reclaim: Narratives of African Women Artists,” from the 15th to the 16th of April 2021 in partnership with the École du Louvre.

Research Committee

Africa2020 Season:

N’Goné Fall, General Commissioner of Africa2020

AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions:

Camille Morineau, Co-founder and Director of AWARE; Anaïs Roesch, International Program Manager; Matylda Taszycka, Head of Research Programmes

External Members:

Eva Barois De Caevel, Independent Curator; Nadira Laggoune, Director of the Musée National Public d’Art Moderne et Contemporain of Alger; Peju Layiwola, Artist, Founder of the Women and Youth Art Foundation and Vice President of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association; Nkule Mabaso, independent curator; Nontobeko Ntombela, Independent Curator and Professor at the Wits School of Arts; Karen Milbourne, Senior Curator, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution; Chika Okeke-Agulu, Professor of Art History, Department of Art & Archaeology / Department of African American Studies, Princeton University; Senam Okudzeto, Artist and Educator, Founder of the Ghanaian NGO Art in Social Structures; Fatou Sarr Sow, Sociologist, Director of the Gender and Family Institute of the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar; Rachida Triki, Professor of Art History and Aesthetics, Tunis University

In partnership with l’Institut Français and l’Agence française de développement