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SALAH HASSAN

Salah Hassan is assistant professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, Hassan taught in the Department of Art History at the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Department of Art History and the University of Pennsylvania, and the Department of Art History and General Studies in the College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum, Sudan. He is editor of the newly launched NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and serves as consulting editor for African Arts and Atlantica.
Born in the Sudan, Hassan received his B.A. (honors) in 1978, from the University of Khartoum, and an M.A. in 1984, and Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art History and the Humanities for 1992-1993, the Toyota Foundation Award for 1995, a Rockefeller Foundation grant to support an exhibition and publication in 1995, and most recently awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation grant to support the publication of NKA. He is the author of Art and Islamic Literacy Among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria (Edwin Meller Press, 1992), co-author of Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa (Flammation and Whitchapel, 1995), and co-editor of The Muse of Modernity: Essays on Culture on Africa (Africa World Press, 1996). He also authored several articles on contemporary African art and culture.
Hassan served as guest curator of several exhibition s and authored and contributed to their companion catalogues and publications including: Seven Stories about Modern African Art a ground breaking exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, as part of Africa 95, and traveled to the Malmo Kunsthall in Sweden in January, 1996: New Vision: Recent Works by Six African Artists, and an exhibition held at the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Art, Orlando Florida, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in November, 1995; Creative Impulses/Modern Expressions: Four African Artists an exhibition of contemporary African art held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in 1993; The Art of Rashid Diab: A Retrospective 1983-1993, (1994) opened at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston (April 1994-August 1994), and traveled to Greenboro, NC; Vision of a Sudanese

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