CURATOR & ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
GRACE ANEIZA ALI — CURATOR
Guyanese-born Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and in the Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies Program , Department of Art History at Florida State University . Her curatorial , research , and teaching practices center on curatorial activism , art and migration , and art of the Caribbean Diaspora with a focus on her homeland Guyana . She serves as Curator-at-Large for the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute ( CCCADI ) in New York , Editor-in-Chief of the College Art Associations ’ Art Journal Open and on its Editorial Board . She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships that have generously supported her research and scholarship , including a Fulbright Fellowship , Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellowship , NYU Provost Fellowship , Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Grant , and Association of Art Museum Curators Professional Alliance of Curators of Color Fellowship , among others . Her essays on contemporary art have been published in Arts Journal , Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas , Wasafiri , Transition Magazine ( Harvard University ), Small Axe , and Nueva Luz Photographic Journal , among others . Her book , Liminal Spaces : Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora ( Cambridge , Open Book Publishers , 2020 ), explores the art and migration narratives of women of Guyanese heritage .
AMANDA ELENA BRITO — CURATORIAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Amanda Elena Brito is a Cuban American art historian born and raised in Miami , Florida . She received her BA in Art History from Florida International University and is currently pursuing an MA in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies at Florida State University . Her research focuses on Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean visual culture with a dedicated emphasis on socially engaged , decolonial art practice . Her curatorial philosophy emphasizes the social utility of art and often addresses themes of migration , identity , and exile . She has held positions and internships at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum , the Seminole Tribe of Florida , the National Portrait Gallery , the Pérez Art Museum Miami , and Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center . She was the recipient of an ArtTable curatorial fellowship in the summer of 2022 .
Cosmo Whyte , [ detail of ] The Enigma of Arrival in Four Sections , Section Two : Red , Green , Blue and Black , 2017 , neon , ceramic bowl , indigo blue pigment , postcard . Courtesy of the artist and Anat Ebgi Gallery , Los Angeles . Photo credit : Ivan Peñafiel .
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