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American curator
Ashley James is an American
curator . She has worked at the
Studio Museum in Harlem , the
Museum of Modern Art and the
Brooklyn Museum . In 2019, she became the first full-time black curator at the
Guggenheim .
Biography
James, who is of Jamaican parentage,
[1] earned her bachelor's degree at
Columbia University in 2009.
[2]
[3] After Columbia, she worked as an intern at the
Studio Museum in Harlem .
[4]
[5] James earned her master's degree at
Yale University , where she studied
English literature and
African American studies .
[2]
[6] While at Yale, she was a co-curator in 2014 at the
Yale University Art Gallery of the exhibition Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection .
[5]
[7] James was a
Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the
Museum of Modern Art .
[8]
The
Brooklyn Museum hired James as an assistant
curator of
contemporary art in 2017.
[6] While at the Brooklyn Museum, she was a "moving force behind the acclaimed exhibition 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.' "
[9]
[10] She was lead curator and it was the largest she had ever worked on before.
[5] James was also played a major role in making acquisitions and doing public programming for the museum.
[2]
James started as an associate curator of
contemporary art at the
Guggenheim in November 2019.
[9] She is the first black curator to work for the museum full-time.
[9] Her debut exhibition, Off the Record , in 2021, featured 13 artists with works "that challenge the presumption of objectivity in historical records, journalism and photography."
[11]
[12]
References
^ Hyde, Shelby Ying (December 3, 2021).
"Celebrating Guggenheim Associate Curator Dr. Ashley James" .
Harper's Bazaar . Retrieved July 12, 2023 .
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"Ashley James named Associate Curator for Contemporary Art" . Contemporary And . November 20, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
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"AitN: November 25, 2019" . Columbia College Today . Retrieved July 7, 2021 .
^ Cassell, Dessane Lopez (March 23, 2020).
"Meet the NYC Art Community: Ashley James on Working in a Field That "Holds Infinite Possibility" " . Hyperallergic . Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
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c Kerpen, Carrie (October 23, 2018).
"You Don't Need to Have All the Answers" . Forbes . Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
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"Ashley James, New Curator at Brooklyn Museum" . Department of African American Studies at Yale University . August 18, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
^ Schwartz, Alexis (November 11, 2021).
"Ashley James is Rewriting the Terms of Engagement" . L’OFFICIEL USA . Retrieved July 12, 2023 .
^ Fluker, Dominique (November 30, 2019).
"Meet Guggenheim's First Black Curator, Ashley James" . Forbes .
Archived from the original on December 1, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
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Pogrebin, Robin (November 15, 2019).
"Guggenheim Hires First Full-Time Black Curator" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
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Cotter, Holland (September 13, 2018).
"Radiant and Radical: 20 Years of Defining the Soul of Black Art" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
^ McShane, Julianne (June 24, 2021).
"Guggenheim curator Ashley James, sees 'a certain kind of possibility' in new role" .
NBC News . Retrieved July 12, 2023 .
^ Harris, Lauren (September 24, 2021).
"Q&A: Dr. Ashley James on 'Off the Record' and the limits of documents" . Columbia Journalism Review . Retrieved July 12, 2023 .
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