[7][8][9] In 2017, Godfrey was a member of the jury that selected Anne Imhof as recipient of the Golden Lion for best national participation in the 57th Venice Biennale.
[10][11] Later that year he co-curated Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power with Zoé Whitley.
[14] In 2019, Godfrey curated an exhibition on Franz West that included around two hundred works such as abstract sculptures, furniture, and collages.
In September 2020, the museums announced the postponement of the exhibition until 2024 because of "the racial justice movement that started in the US" following the murder of George Floyd.
[23] Godfrey was guest curator of a 2021 exhibit on the works of New York-based artist Jacqueline Humphries at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.
[24] In November 2022, Godfrey launched a free one-year course aimed for curators from low-income backgrounds, to be co-directed with Kerryn Greenberg [Wikidata] and Rudi Minto de Wijs, who both previously worked at Tate.