Dr. Kellie Jones

Dr. Kellie Jones is Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History & Archaeology and Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Her research interests include African American and African Diaspora artists, Latinx and Latin American Artists, and issues in contemporary art and museum theory. Dr. Jones has received numerous awards for her work from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University; Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a term as Scholar-in-Residence at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Europe in Giverny, France. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) and the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2016. Dr. Jones’s writings have appeared in a multitude of exhibition catalogues and journals. She is the author of EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (2011), and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017) and editor and co-editor of Black Curators Matter: Conversations on Art and Change, and David Hammons among others.

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