INTRODUCTION : ADRIENNE EDWARDS is the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. From 2010 to 2018 she was curator at Performa in New York, where she developed special thematic presentations and oversaw institutional partnerships and co-commissioning relationships. In addition to being a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at New York University, Edwards is a contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues and art publications.
She is a board member at Danspace Project, Movement Research, and Kyle Abraham's A.I.M. INTERVIEW : COURTNEY J. MARTIN is an art historian and curator, currently Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Previously Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, Martin has also worked in the media, arts and culture unit of the Ford Foundation in New York, and has taught at Brown University in Rhode Island.
She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and art publications, including Phaidon's Cecilv Brown (2020). SURVEY : KELLIE JONES is a writer and curator She is Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the-Departments of Art History & Archaeology, and African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. FOCUS : CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU is Director of Program in African Studies, and Professor of African and African Diaspora Art in the Departments of Art and Archaeology, and African American Studies, Princeton University.
His books include El Anatsui. The Reinvention of Sculpture (2022). African Artists : 1882 to Now (2021), Yusuf Grillo. Painting. Lagos. Life (2020) Obiora Udechukwu. Line. Image. Text (2018) Postcolonial Modernism. Art and Decolonization in 20th-Century Nigeria (2015) ; and Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2009). He has received The Melville J. Herskovits Prize (2016) and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (2016) He is coeditor of Nka : Journal of Contemporary African Art.
She is a board member at Danspace Project, Movement Research, and Kyle Abraham's A.I.M. INTERVIEW : COURTNEY J. MARTIN is an art historian and curator, currently Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Previously Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, Martin has also worked in the media, arts and culture unit of the Ford Foundation in New York, and has taught at Brown University in Rhode Island.
She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and art publications, including Phaidon's Cecilv Brown (2020). SURVEY : KELLIE JONES is a writer and curator She is Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the-Departments of Art History & Archaeology, and African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. FOCUS : CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU is Director of Program in African Studies, and Professor of African and African Diaspora Art in the Departments of Art and Archaeology, and African American Studies, Princeton University.
His books include El Anatsui. The Reinvention of Sculpture (2022). African Artists : 1882 to Now (2021), Yusuf Grillo. Painting. Lagos. Life (2020) Obiora Udechukwu. Line. Image. Text (2018) Postcolonial Modernism. Art and Decolonization in 20th-Century Nigeria (2015) ; and Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2009). He has received The Melville J. Herskovits Prize (2016) and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (2016) He is coeditor of Nka : Journal of Contemporary African Art.