Associate Professor
African American, African Diaspora, and Latin American Art
Ph.D.,Yale University, 1999
Art historian Dr. Kellie Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her research interests include African American and African Diaspora artists, Latino/a and Latin American Artists, and issues in contemporary art and museum theory. During 2007-2008 she is teaching courses on feminist performance art, African American artists and the traditions of the U.S. west, a survey of African American artists in the 20th and 21st centuries, and Masterpieces of Western Art.
For 2006 Dr. Jones was named a Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ford Foundation. In 2005 she was the inaugural recipient of the David C. Driskell Award in African American Art and Art History from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta and a Scholar-in-Residence, at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Dr. Jones’s writings have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues and the journals NKA, Artforum, Flash Art, Atlantica, and Third Text among others. Current book projects include, Taming the Freeway and Other Acts of Urban HIP-notism: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (forthcoming from The MIT Press), an anthology on David Hammons, Mexican and African American conceptual art in transnational perspective, and a book of collected essays.
“A.K.A. Saartjie: The Hottentot Venus in Context (Some Reflections and a Dialogue) 1998/2004” in Deborah Willis and Carla Williams, eds. They Called Her Hottentot: The Art, Science, and Fiction of Sarah Baartman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, forthcoming.
"An Interview with David Hammons," in Susan Morgan and Thomas Lawson, eds. Reallife Magazine, Selected Writings and Projects, 1979-1994. New York: Primary Information, 2007 (reprint)
“’It’s Not Enough to Say ‘Black is Beautiful’”: Abstraction at the Whitney 1969-1974” in Kobena Mercer, ed. Discrepant Abstractions. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006.
“Black West, thoughts on Art in Los Angeles,” Margo Crawford and Lisa Gail Collins, eds. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
“Jean-Michel Basquiat Retrospective,” Interview with Kellie Jones, Franklin Sirmans, and Margaret Porter Troupe, Black Renaissance Noir 6 (2) (Spring 2005): 50-67.
“To/From Los Angeles with Betye Saar,” Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2005.
“Brothers and Sisters,” Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2005
“Tracey Rose: Post-Apartheid Playground,” NKA 19 (Summer 2004): 26-31.
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E-mail: kej2110@columbia.edu
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