Denny Mwaura is a Chicago-based curator, writer, and programmer. He is the Assistant Director of UIC Gallery 400. Exhibitions and public programs he has organized include The Mask of Prosperity, Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis, Reckless Rolodex, and Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art at Gallery 400, and Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Speculative Archives at Conversations at the Edge.
He was the Program Manager of the Black Arts Movement School Modality and has authored texts on artists, including Amanda Williams, Max Guy, and Kapwani Kiwanga.
Mwaura is a recipient of the Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectural Writing, an award granted by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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He was the Program Manager of the Black Arts Movement School Modality and has authored texts on artists, including Amanda Williams, Max Guy, and Kapwani Kiwanga.
Mwaura is a recipient of the Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectural Writing, an award granted by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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