Larry Ossei-Mensah

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Curator / Co-Founder of ARTNOIR / Co-Founder of The Medium Group @ Peggy
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About Larry Ossei-Mensah

Larry Ossei-Mensah uses art as a forum to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator, cultural critic, and angel investor has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces featuring artists such as Firelei Baez, Steve McQueen, Catherine Opie, Nick Cave, Guadalupe Maravilla, Rodney McMillan, Genevieve Gaignard, Judy Chicago, Stanley Whitney, to name a few. He has also collaborated on several Web3-related projects with creatives such as Derrick Adams x Jay-Z, Marco Brambilla, and Mikael Owunna. The global venues Ossei-Mensah has collaborated with on exhibitions include such spaces as The MCA Denver, Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hong Kong & London, MASS MoCA, and the 7th Athen Biennale in Athens, Greece, which he co-curated with OSMK Social Club. Ossei-Mensah is also the former Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAD), Detroit. Currently, he serves as Curator-at-Large at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Ossei-Mensah also curated Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo’s first museum solo exhibition, Soul of Black Folks, at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in 2021, San Francisco, and the Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2022. Upcoming iterations of the show will be on view at the Seattle Art Museum and Denver Art Museum during the latter part of 2023. A native of The Bronx, Ossei-Mensah co-founded ARTNOIR, a nonprofit whose mission is to drive racial equity in the art world by centering creatives, curators, collectors, and communities of color. Via ARTNOIR, he has worked with brands like UBS, Twitter, Coca-Cola, 1stDibs, and Mailchimp on projects that operated at the intersection of art and culture. Ossei-Mensah has been profiled in publications, including the New York Times, Artsy, WWD, Frieze, Dazed, Robb Report, The Financial Times, and Cultured Magazine. He has also moderated/spoken on panels at Art Basel Miami Beach, The Earn Your Leisure Podcast, and The Fog Art Fair, to name a few. You can follow Ossei-Mensah at @larryosseimensah (Instagram) and @youngglobal on Twitter.

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Larry Ossei-Mensah Work Experience Details
  • The Medium Group, Llc
    Curator
    The Medium Group, Llc Mar 2008 - Present
    The MEDIUM Group (MEDIUM) is a boutique firm led by curator Larry Ossei-Mensah that helps individuals, brands, nonprofits, and other organizations with curatorial consultancy services. Clients: Beefeater 24; Absolut Vodka; Red Bull; Perrier Sparkling Mineral Water; White Oak Vodka; ZICO; The School of Visual Arts (SVA); Rhode Island School of Design (RISD); MoetHennessy; Under Armour➤MEDIUM is a boutique firm providing business and curatorial advisory; strategic marketing and project management services ➤Ideate digital and offline experiential marketing activations engineered to create multiple touchpoints for clients (e.g. Art Basel Miami Beach and Frieze) ➤Project manage activations ensuring deliverables and client objectives are achieved➤Provide digital content curation via the creation, publishing and management of content highlighting the art world's exhibitions, celebrities and lifestyle on branded platforms➤Serve as a cultural curator actively leveraging relationships with key influencers to access insights and best practices
  • Artnoir Co.
    Co Founder & President
    Artnoir Co. Nov 2013 - Present
    Partners: Neuehouse, MoetHennessyARTNOIR is a global collective of culturalists who design experiences aimed to engage this generation’s dynamic and diverse creative class. We offer an alternative perspective to the traditional arts narrative, support the freedom of artistic expression for all, and provide a platform for bold acts of creativity and storytelling.www.artnoir.co
  • Peggy
    Advisor
    Peggy Jan 2021 - Present
    Peggy is the social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Brooklyn Academy Of Music
    Curator-At-Large
    Brooklyn Academy Of Music Feb 2019 - Jun 2023
    Brooklyn, Ny, Us
  • Neuehouse
    Member
    Neuehouse Jul 2015 - May 2020
    New York, Ny, Us
    A private membership work collective intended for both solopreneurs and those leading teams of up to 10 people, NeueHouse is a complete rethinking of the ideal working environment for today’s creators in such fields as film, design, fashion, publishing, the arts and tech.
  • Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit
    Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator
    Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
    Detroit, Michigan, Us
  • Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit
    Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator
    Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
    Detroit, Michigan, Us
  • My Global Hustle
    Cultural Critic | Speaker
    My Global Hustle Nov 2006 - Dec 2018
    DISCUSSIONS ORGANIZED or PARTICIPATED2017 Participant - #OneBook Culturalists In-Conversation, Presented by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and Schomburg, NYC2017 Participant - Career Development Roundtable: Social Media for Artists with The MET Fifth Avenue, NYC2017 Participant - BLACK JOY AS AN EXPRESSION OF RESISTANCE AND LIBERATION w/ Zoe Kravitz, Matthew Morgan, Sade Lythcott & Andre Singleton, NYC2017 Participant - FOG Design + Art Fair: The Cultural Gesture in conversation w/ Zio Ziegler, San Francisco, CA2017 Juror - Art Omi - International Artist Residency, NYC 2017 Organizer - SVA MFA Talks - Conversation with Jason Moran & Joan Jonas w/ the School of Visual Arts & ARTNOIR, NYC2017 Juror - Metro Small Works Show, City Without Walls (CWOW), Newark, NJ2016 Participant - Black Portraiture Conference with NYU, Harvard, & ARTNOIR, Johannesburg, South Africa2016 Organizer - Conversation w/ author Yaa Gyasi + visual artist Toyin Ojih Odutola w/Neuehouse & ARTNOIR, NYC2016 Participant - DLD Conference: Art & Activism in conversation with Klaus Biesenbach, NYC2016 Juror - Rockaway Artists Alliance/ MoMAPS1 - Rockaway!: Forbidden Fruit, NYC2016 Juror - Pulse Prize, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, NYC2016 Keynote Presenter - Black Tech Week - Monetizing Culture Through Content2015 Participant - CAA Annual Conference - Breaking the Rules: The “Other” Career Paths2014 Participant - Prospect 3 New Orleans - “Notes for Now”2014 Organizer/Participant -The Rules: How to Play the Art Game - Summer School Edition2014 Participant - Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)Fine Arts Portfolio Reviewer2014 Organizer/Participant - JPMorgan Chase celebrating African-American artists in their collection: Derrick Adams in conversation with Larry Ossei-Mensah, Independent Curator and Collector, Bernard Lumpkin. Hosted By JP Morgan Chase.
  • Omi International Arts Center
    2017 Critic-In-Residence
    Omi International Arts Center Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
  • Feature
    Creative Director
    Feature May 2016 - Mar 2017
    A bi-annual presentation of contemporary art focused on realizing ambitious projects by the most relevant contemporary artists. FEATURE is led by Creative Director, Larry Ossei-Mensah, with each edition revolving on a single curatorial theme for a discerning audience of collectors, museums and institutions. www.feature-show.com
  • School Of Visual Arts (Sva)
    Adjunct Faculty
    School Of Visual Arts (Sva) Aug 2013 - Mar 2017
    Teaching a course entitled:The Rules: How to Play the Art Game without Sacrificing Artistic Integrity Course Description:For many artists, the concept of "doing business"-or engaging in any form of marketing, branding or networking - is intimidating, and is often considered the proverbial antithesis of a serious, intellectual art practice. In this course, creative and marketing professionals from The MEDIUM Group explore strategies that will help artists understand the art game, how it is played and which mistakes to avoid. The course is based on four key pillars: artistic practice, brand development, relationship building, professionalism and likability. By putting the art game in context, participants will complete the course empowered, informed and equipped with the tools necessary to navigate the art world and stand out above the crowd.Primary OBJECTIVES:• Create a strategic framework via SAFE Plan (Synchronized Approaches for Everyone)• Elevate the status of students work and profile • Develop art world alliances via relationship building techniques • Effectively create social currency to differentiate from competitors. • Evaluate performance via continual iteration
  • Uptown Magazine
    Arts And Culture Writer
    Uptown Magazine Aug 2011 - Aug 2016
    Harlem, New York, Us
  • Viacom
    Manager, Social Activation & Innovation, Partner Marketing At Nickelodeon
    Viacom Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
    New York, Ny, Us
    Clients: Paramount; General Mills; ConAgra; Norwegian Cruise Line, Toyota, Nintendo, Sonic, Walmart, Kids'​ Choice Awards, Kids'​ Choice Sports, Shoe Carnival (Campaign rated Best in Class by Twitter)➤Strategically conceive social media concepts for RFPs positioning Nickelodeon to leverage their robust social media audience➤Create comprehensive social media activation plans engineered to drive performance for client campaigns➤Work cross-functionally with Sales, Consumer and Integrated Marketing teams to ensure alignment with the goals and objectives for social media campaigns for advertising partners➤Co-Led Nickelodeon’s first ever co-branded campaign on Vine for Shoe Carnival generating over 1MM loops contributing to the client transitioning from new business to continuing business ➤Actively provide insights to the broader marketing and sales teams on social/digital media trends, best practices and emerging platforms that could enhance the performance of advertising partner campaigns➤Conduct influencers outreach, identify emerging social and digital media platforms for potential marketing partnership opportunities➤Manage activation budgets for paid social media, SEM and display advertising to optimize engagement with social content ➤Monitor campaign performance utilizing social data intelligence tools: Facebook Insights, Twitter Analytics, Sysomos,SpredFast, etc.➤Oversee the development of case studies and recaps of campaigns for Partner Marketing, Sales teams and advertising partners
  • Cunning Communications
    Social Media | Community Manager
    Cunning Communications Aug 2012 - Jan 2013
    Developed social/digital media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter & Instagram) strategies and cultural programs to drive visibility, awareness and generate social media chatter for client campaign (e.g. Os Kuduristas from Angola)Created a social media editorial calendar to guarantee an effective digital media mix to support KPIs for client campaign➤Authored original content (e.g. blogs) and served as the cultural voice across digital platforms for client campaign➤Collaborated with cross-functional partners to implement best practices to compliment offline campaign activations➤Reviewed and analyzed client social media metrics and made recommendations to increase online traffic and ensure KPIs were met➤Increased client's Instagram followers by 72%, Facebook followers by 16%, and Twitter followers by 18% respectively
  • Yodle
    Online Marketing Analyst | Search Engine Analyst
    Yodle Dec 2011 - Dec 2012
    New York, Ny, Us
    ➤Provided strategic insights and best practices to Yodle’s sales team, ultimately leading to a 10% y-o-y increase in revenue driven by the company’s hyper local and national online advertising products ➤Researched and identified hyper-local trends for B-to-B prospects in order to pinpoint optimization opportunities for their online marketing strategy, based on KPIs ➤Conducted in-depth analyses of client’s online content experience (web interface for content relevancy, ease of navigation, and optimization the user experience) and leveraged these insights to generate thousands of dollars in sales
  • Media Whiz Llc   Text-Link-Ads
    Business Development (Consultant)
    Media Whiz Llc Text-Link-Ads Mar 2011 - Nov 2011
    Us
    ➤Developed and implemented appropriate SEO strategies (i.e. linking building, inLinks and keyword selection) in tandem with the sales team to help meet their client’s SEO and marketing goals ➤Conducted consultative meetings with clients and leveraged insights from these sessions to generate custom proposals outlining recommendations for a comprehensive SEO strategy ➤Identified and created a high-quality prospect lists for the sales team leading to 15% y-o-y additional monthly revenue
  • World Economic Forum
    Web Content Manager / External Staff
    World Economic Forum Jan 2004 - Jan 2006
    Cologny, Geneva, Ch
    ➤Managed digital partnerships with CNN.com, BBC.co.uk, FT.com and NYTimes.com, maximizing traffic to the World Eco• Managed digital partnerships with CNN.com, BBC.co.uk, FT.com and NYTimes.com, maximizing traffic to the World Economic Forum Web site during Annual Meeting➤Created daily reports recapping global online media coverage of the Annual Meeting and highlighting negative press for the media team to conduct damage control➤Collaborated with the communications team to prioritize strategies that would best achieve optimum media outcome➤Increased web traffic by 24% with over 200,000 page views daily during the Annual Meeting
  • Carat Usa
    Multimedia Promotions Manager
    Carat Usa Nov 2004 - Jul 2005
    New York, New York, Us
    Clients: Adidas,TiVo, Vail Resorts, Rent-A-Center, Martell (Pernod Ricard),Jameson (Pernod Ricard), Lifetime Television, and KIA Motors ➤Led the cross functional team in the launch of the Adidas New York City flagship store in partnership with HOT 97 (WQHT)➤Worked with clients and account executives to create advertising and strategic KPIs used as a benchmark for added value campaigns➤Developed and executed added value campaigns (e.g. on-premise promotions, retail events, radio contest) for clients via digital and terrestrial media ➤Evaluated and selected RFPs for add value media campaigns for key clients with top-tier regional media outlets ➤Created campaign recap reports that measured the effectiveness and efficiency of media partners in relations established KPIs
  • Fox Television
    Media Sales
    Fox Television Mar 2003 - Nov 2004
    Los Angeles, Ca, Us
    ***Transferred from Katz Media / Clearchannel Communications*** Agencies: ITN Networks, Grey, Mediaedge and MediaVest ➤Supervised sales agreements valued over $2 million per quarter for Fox Networks in seven major markets ➤Managed day-to-day media buying activities with affiliate Fox stations to ensure trafficking and continuity of advertisements ➤Analyzed campaign performance, created campaign recaps and made recommendations for strategic pivots to maximize the value of targeted ad placement

Larry Ossei-Mensah Skills

Digital Media Blogging Online Marketing Social Media Advertising Seo Facebook Social Networking Digital Strategy Marketing Strategy Writing Culture Digital Marketing Sem Integrated Marketing Fine Art Online Advertising Contemporary Art Curating Multimedia Lead Generation Press Releases Strategic Partnerships Strategic Planning Project Management Market Research Competitive Analysis Digital Photography Professional Networking Curatorial Projects Travel Planning Media Production Strategic Thinking Cultural Criticism Cultural Arts Market Analysis Film Production Google Analytics Web Analytics B2b Marketing Arts Journalism Google Adwords Infographics Digital Activation Brand Activation Sponsorship Activation Partnership Activation Spredfast Twitter Analytics Facebook Insights

Larry Ossei-Mensah Education Details

  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
  • Clark University
    Clark University
    Business Management
  • Les Roches School Of Hotel Management
    Les Roches School Of Hotel Management
    Hospitality Management And Marketing
  • Cardinal Hayes Memorial High School
    Cardinal Hayes Memorial High School
    Diploma

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