Kunbi Oni is a Collection Specialist, Acquisitions and Loans, Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Previously, Oni worked as Administrator in the General Counsel’s office of the Museum. She is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts with more than 10 years of experience teaching Art History to both undergraduate and graduate students. Prior to joining MoMA, she also worked independently with African artists on solo exhibitions in New York and Lagos, Nigeria.
The names, cultures, and nationalities of African artists who influenced Picasso have historically been omitted from scholarship. Yet Picasso’s interest in African masks is well-known. In this essay, MoMA staff member Kunbi Oni charts the implications— and possibilities—that closer attention to the makers of such masks could shed on modern art.
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