Evyn Bileri Banawoye (b.2001) is a Togolese-American curator and writer based in South Africa. Their research and artistic practice acknowledges the phantasms of displacement, racialization, migration, and sexualization by archiving and speculating alternative existences outside of colonial constructs. As a researcher, they are preoccupied with somatic modes of relation that prioritize embodied approaches to research, i.e, sonic, movement, perception. Since joining Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa as a Curatorial Research Fellow, they have contributed to the development of exhibition research and have assisted with exhibitions by Cauleen Smith, Zohra Opoku, Robin Rhode, Lerato Shadi, Rita Mawuena Benissan, and more. Bileri Banawoye has independently curated an exhibition Mad Black Phantasms; a contemporary art exhibition featuring the work of 9 artists, exploring interpretations of madness and racialization; also featured in Artguide ArtForum. Bileri Banawoye holds two BAs from NYU College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Global Public, and an Honours degree in Visual History from the University of Western Cape. Their work has been featured in PhotoVogue and they were previously awarded the Zeitz MOCAA/UWC Fellowship 2025. Bileri Banawoye is currently working towards a Masters in History.