• LeRonn P. Brooks
• Curator
• Getty Research Institute; GRI

Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks is 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. In this capacity, Dr. Brooks is also the curator, and co-curator, of several archives including
those of the Johnson Publishing Company, architect, Paul Revere Williams, sculptor Richard
Hunt, and Dr. Robert Farris Thompson, among others. What’s more, his interviews and essays
on African American art have been featured in Callaloo Journal, The International Review of
African American Art, and the Aperture Foundation, as well as in many exhibition catalogues:
Dawoud Bey: Elegy (2023), The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid
Belonging (2023), Pace Gallery; A Long Arc: Photography and the American South Since 1845;
Faith Ringgold: American People (2022), The New Museum; Richard Hunt (monograph) (2022);
Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the
Collections of Jordan D.Schnitzer and His Family Foundation (2018), Hallie Ford Museum of
Art; Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise (2018), the Mississippi
Museum of Art; NARI WARD: G.O.A.T., AGAIN (2017), Socrates Sculpture Park; and Black
Romantic: The Figurative in Contemporary African-American Art (2002), the Studio Museum in
Harlem. He holds a PhD in Art History from City University of New York and a BFA in painting
from Hunter College.