Amani Olu

amani olu (b. 1980) is an independent curator, writer, private dealer, and the co-founder and executive director of Humble Arts Foundation, a New York based not-for-profit organization committed to supporting and promoting new art photography. He is the producer, co-curator, and designer of the yearly, innovative publication, The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography, published by Humble Arts Foundation. In 2009 he curated After Color at Bose Pacia in Chelsea, New York, which travels during 2010 and 2011 to galleries at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). He is the organizer of the annual exhibition, Young Curators, New Ideas, which is in its third year and has featured presentations by Jose Ruiz, Lumi Tan, and Cleopatra’s. His projects have been reviewed in Art News, AM New York, The New Yorker, and Time Out NY, and online at Art in America, Blackbook, Bomblog, Cool Hunting, and Flavorwire. olu is also a regular contributor to Whitewall Magazine where he recently interviewed William Eggleston and K8 Hardy. He lives in New York, is a proud member of New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), cooks regularly for his girlfriend, and is often described as "dapper."