Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks

Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks is an art historian and curator of the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute as well as curator of African American collections and acquisitions at the GRI. He is responsible for building and developing collections to promote advanced research in the study of African American art history. Brooks earned a doctor of philosophy in art history from City University of New York, NY, and a bachelor of fine arts in painting from Hunter College, NY. In his capacity at the GRI, Dr. Brooks is the curator and co-curator of several archives including those of the Johnson Publishing Company, architect Paul Revere Williams, sculptor Richard Hunt, and scholar Dr. Robert Farris Thompson, among others. He’s currently working on an exhibition on the life and career of renowned African American architect Paul R. Williams at the Getty. What’s more, his interviews and essays on African American art and poetry, have been featured in Callaloo Journal, The International Review of African American Art, and the Aperture Foundation, as well as in many exhibition catalogues.