in Lagos, Nigeria, at the age of 56 after a four-year battle with breast cancer. Curators Nina Zimmer and Touria El Glaoui named Silva among the decade's most influential curators. Exhibitions curated or co-curated 2009 In the Light of Play, Durban Art Gallery and Johannesburg Art Fair Chance Encounters, Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai India e Sakshi Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Like A Virgin ..., Lucy Azubuike (NIG) and Zanele Muholi (SA), CCA, Lagos Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty, Second Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece Maputo: A tale of One City, Oslo, part of the Africa in Oslo season. 2008 George Osodi, Paradise Lost: Revisiting the Niger Delta, CCA, Lagos Ndidi Dike, Waka-into-bondage: The Last ¾ Mile, CCA, Lagos 2007 Fela, Ghariokwu Lemi and The Art of the Album Cover, CCA, Lagos Contact Zone: Contemporary Art from West and North Africa, National Museum of Mali Telling... Contemporary Finnish photography, Settima Biennale di Fotografia Africana, Bamako 2006 Dak'Art, Biennale di Dakar, Senegal Bibliography Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe: Mixed Race Studies: A Reader — Routledge, 2004. References External links Bisi Silva's blog Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos Bisi Silva on powerofculture.nl Bisi Silva Obituary On NaijaGists.com Bisi Silva Obituary, Artforum, 12 March 2019 Bisi Silva remembered in Aperture. 1 Feb 2019 On AICA website, UK On Art Throb, South Africa On Africa's Country Arts Council of African studies Association Art Africa Magazine ContemporaryAnd tribute Nigerian Tribune Jumoke Sanwo Bisi Silva 1962–2019 African Arts: The MIT Press Volume 52, Number 4, Winter 2019 In Memoriam: Okwui Enwezor and Bisi Silva 1962 births 2019 deaths Yoruba women artists Nigerian artists Place of birth missing People from Lagos People from London Nigerian art curators Nigerian women curators Alumni of the Royal College of Art Deaths from breast cancer Deaths from cancer in Nigeria