Kevin D. Dumouchelle joined the National Museum of African Art in October 2016. He was the lead curator for Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts, the museum’s recent, award-winning permanent galleries, which present the full range of time, place, and media represented in the National Museum’s collection. He has served as the NMAfA in-house curator for World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean and Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women.

Previously, Dumouchelle served a decade at the Brooklyn Museum as the curator in charge of the arts of both Africa and the Pacific Islands. At Brooklyn, he conceived two award-winning re-installations of the African collection: African Innovations (2011) and Double Take: African Innovations (2014). He has written books and articles on a range of topics and curated exhibitions on both 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 earned a Ph.D, M.Phil., and M.A. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University. His doctoral research in Ghana examined architectural modernity in Asante. He is also the recipient of a first-class master’s degree in history from Oxford University and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Article

• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2017. "Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts." Tribal Arts, 21-4, (85) 86–95. 2017
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2013. "Curating African Art History." African Arts, 46, (3) 7–8. 2013
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2012. "In Memoriam: William Siegmann (1943-2011)." African Arts, 45, (3). 2012
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2011. "African Art in Detail." African Arts, 44, (2) 93–94. 2011
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2011. "African Innovations." Tribal Arts, 15-4, (61) 92–101. 2011
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2010. "Traditions of Modernity: Currents in Architectural Expression in Kumasi." Ghana Studies, 12-13 155–188. 2010

Book

• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2015. African Art at the Barnes Foundation, Clarke, Christa and Dolkart, Judith, editors. Philadelphia: Barnes Foundation. 2015
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2014. Brooklyn Museum Handbook, Stayton, Kevin, editor. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum. 2014
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2012. Collecting for the Future: a Decade of Collection Highlights, Stayton, Kevin, editor. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum. 2012
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2011. Power incarnate: Allan Stone's collection of sculpture from the Congo. Greenwich, Conn.: Bruce Museum. 2011

Chapter

• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2020. "Thinking With Masks: Surveying the Literature on Bifwebe." In Kifwebe: A Century of Songye and Luba Masks. Neyt, François, editor. 302–319. Milan, Italy: 5 Continents Editions. 2020
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2014. "Bill Siegmann: a Connoisseur's Curator." In Visions from the forest: the art of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk and Bortolot, Alexander, editors. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 2014
• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2009. "Beyond the Body Boundary: Queer[y]ing the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Samuel Fosso." In Expressions of the body: representations in African text and image. Baker, Charlotte, editor. 63–93. Oxford ; New York: Peter Lang. 2009
• Dumouchelle, Kevin. 2009. "[Various entries]." In [Exhibit catalog:] Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens. Grossman, Wendy, Bari, Martha Ann, and Bonnell, Letty, editors. 154–155. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2009

Review

• Dumouchelle, Kevin D. 2012. [Book review] "African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400-1900." African Arts, 45, (2), 92–93. 2012

Kevin D. Dumouchelle, PhD

Curator

National Museum of African Art

Smithsonian Institution

MRC 708, P.O. Box 37012

950 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

Kevin D. Dumouchelle, PhD

Curator

National Museum of African Art

Smithsonian Institution

MRC 708, P.O. Box 37012

950 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012