Dr David Dibosa
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Biography
Dr. David Dibosa is co-investigator for Black Artists and Modernism (BAM), a 3 year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as a collaboration between University of the Arts London and Middlesex University.
Dibosa co-author of Post-Critical Museology: Theory and Practice in the Art Museum (Routledge, 2013). Dibosa trained as a curator, after receiving his first degree from Girton College, Cambridge.
He was awarded his PhD in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London, for a thesis titled, Reclaiming Remembrance: Art, Shame and Commemoration.
During the 1990s, he curated public art projects, including In Sight In View, a billboard project in Birmingham, England, as well as a sculpture park in the West Midlands. From 2004-2008, he was Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory at Wimbledon College of Arts.
He is also a member of University of the Arts London's Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN).
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