• Source: Kellie Jones

Kellie Jones (born 1959) is an American art historian and curator. She is a Professor in Art History and Archaeology in African American Studies at Columbia University. She won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.
In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.




Biography


Jones is the daughter of poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka. Jones graduated from Amherst College in 1981. She was awarded a Ph.D. by Yale University in 1999.
Her research interests include African Diaspora and African American artists, Latin American and Latino/a artists, and problems in contemporary art and museum theory. Jones has been published in journals such as NKA, Artforum, Flash Art, Atlantica, and Third Text. Jones has worked as a curator for over three decades.
Jones has a half-brother, Newark, New Jersey, mayor Ras Baraka, and a half-sister, Dominique di Prima, from Amiri's relationship with di Prima's mother.




Awards and honors


2005: David C. Driskell Prize.
2012: Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation
2013: Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant.
2013: Terra Foundation Fellow.
2016: MacArthur Fellows Program award.
2018: College Art Association Award for Excellence in Diversity.
2019: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow.




Curated exhibits


Curated and co-curated exhibits:

Basquiat. New York: Brooklyn Museum, March 11, 2005 through June 5, 2005. Co-curators include Marc Mayer, Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, and Franklin Sirmans.
Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2006.
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, October 2, 2011 – January 8, 2012; MOMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York, from October 21, 2012 – March 11, 2013; and at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, MA, from July 20-December 1, 2013.
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. New York: Brooklyn Museum, March 7–July 13, 2014. Co-curated by Teresa A. Carbone and Kellie Jones.




Books


Jones, Kellie (2002). Lorna Simpson. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 0714840386
Jones, Kellie (2011). EyeMinded: Living And Writing Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822348733
Jones, Kellie (2011). Now Dig This!: Art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum. ISBN 978-3791351360
Jones, Kellie (2017). South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822361640




References






External links


Kellie Jones' official website
Kellie Jones, Columbia University Department of Art History & Archaeology

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar karakter Scooby-Doo
• Daftar hidangan nasi
• Scooby-Doo
• Fearless Tour
• Hi-5 (seri TV Australia)
• Hi-5 (grup musik Australia)
• Daftar tokoh Disney
• Zendaya
• Game of Thrones
• James Charles Stuart
• Kellie Jones
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Amiri Baraka
• Kelly Jones (disambiguation)
• Hettie Jones
• Lisa Jones
• Arroz con pollo
• MacArthur Fellows Program
• Dawoud Bey
• Ras Baraka