Art and cultural historian
Michael I. Ohajuru, Honorary Doctorate (Open University, 2024), Fellow of the RSA (2020) and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (2014), is a leading voice on the Black presence in European art. With degrees in Physics (1974) and Art History (2008), he retired from senior roles in international data communications in 2014 and lives in South London with his partner, artist Ebun Culwin. He writes, blogs and lectures widely, speaking at the Royal Academy, Yale, the Met, the National Gallery and Tate Britain. He founded Image of the Black in London Galleries, directs The John Blanke Project, co-convened What’s Happening in Black British History workshops, co-hosts the Black Presence in British Portraiture Podcast and is the patron of the Westminster Tour Guides.