Ese Onojeruo is a London based curator and film producer currently working as Assitant Curator, Young People’s Programmes at Tate.
Her practice is centred aroundreimagining institutional spaces and structures for bodies that are often discriminated against, or ‘othered’. She is interested in these communal experiences of ‘exclusion’ as sites of alternative knowledge production.
Over the years she has worked at galleries such as Tate, Chisenhale Gallery and South London Gallery with a focus of creating community and supporting emerging artists. This has allowed her to develop programmes such as Narration Group, a collective for Women and Non-Binary people of colour to rearticulate their narratives and Curating Black Art, a 4 week course exploring how hegemonic structures inform the ways in which Black artists are positioned and understood through the prism of difference with Black Blossom School of Art.
As a producer She have continued to support artistic development, working as a Studio Associate for Anthea Hamilton and as a film producer on projects such as: Prime Time by Anthea hamilton commission by Hayward Gallery(2022); I Carry It With Me Everywhere by Turab Shah Arwa Aburawa(2022); Undercurrent 528 by Evan Ifekoya(2021); The Only Good System is a Sound System, Black Obsidian Sound (2021); Resilient Responses Tate Gallery Commission by Tate (2020).
