Kobena mercer biography
Kobena mercer biography
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Kobena Mercer
British art historian and writer
Kobena Mercer (born 1960)[1] is a British art historian and writer on contemporary art and visual culture.
His writing on Robert Mapplethorpe and Rotimi Fani-Kayode has been described as "among the most incisive (and delightful to read) critiques of simple identity-based politics in the field of cultural studies."[2]
Life and work
Mercer was born in London in 1960.
He was educated in Ghana and England and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Fine Art at Saint Martins School of Art. He gained his doctorate by completing a PhD at Goldsmiths College in 1990.[3]
Much of Mercer's writing has focused on the work and cultural context of black British artists, including monographs for Keith Piper, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Hew Locke[4] – as well as on contemporary and modern art of the African Diaspora more widely.[5] He has contributed essays to numerous anthologies in the fields of cu