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Kellie Jones
Associate Professor
African American, African Diaspora, and Latin American Art
Ph.D.,Yale University, 1999

Contact Information
911 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-8084
E-mail: kej2110@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:30-12

Biography
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.

Dr. Jones was named an Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellow in 2008 for her lifetime of writing on visual art.  The fellowship commemorates the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling of 1954 which struck down legal segregation; it recognizes candidates whose work honors and furthers the spirit of the statute. 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, Eye-Minded, a book of essays (Duke University Press 2010) and 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).

Rcent Publications

“A.K.A. Saartjie: The Hottentot Venus in Context (Some Reflections and a Dialogue)” in Deborah Willis, ed. BlackVenus 2010: They Called Her Hottentot. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.

Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980. New York:  The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2006

“‘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.

Basquiat. New York. Brooklyn Museum. 2005

Lorna Simpson. London: Phaidon Press, 2002.


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