Curriculum Vitae
web: raelsalley.studio
email: rael.salley@gmail.com
CURRENT ROLES
2020- Present
Founding Director, The Space for Black Creative Imagination
2015—2023
Professor & Chair | History of Art History, Design, & Visual Culture. Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
2022
Guest Researcher | Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). University of Amsterdam.
2014— 2021
Visiting Professor | Africana Studies, The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
2010 – 2015
Senior Lecturer | Art History & Fine Art (Tenure Awarded 2014)
The University of Cape Town, The Michaelis School of Fine Art
2013– 2014
Interim Head of Dept: Art History and Discourse, The Michaelis School
2008-10
Lecturer in Art History, Columbia College, Chicago (University, 9 credits/semester x 4)
2015— Present
Professor, History of Art, Design, Visual Culture. Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Baltimore MD, USA.
2018—2020
Honorary Research Associate (Philosophy) University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape.
2014—2020
Visiting Professor (Africana Studies) University of California, Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
2009
PhD., The University of Chicago. The Committee on the History of Culture. Art History & Visual Studies
Dissertation Chair: W.J.T. Mitchell
2008
Black Europe Summer School (Amsterdam, NL).
2004
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fine Art Practice (Painting) & Art History, Theory, & Criticism
2002
BFA, The Rhode Island School of Design
1999 Brown University (Coursework)
1997 Dartmouth College
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2020 AICAD BIPOC Leadership Program. Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design
2019 Leadership & Management Course. Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University
2017 Certification, Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL, ELL) Anaheim University
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Art History and Visual Studies, Theory and Criticism, Visual Art Studio Practice (Media: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking, Interdisciplinary), Curatorial Practice, Modern and Contemporary Art, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, American Art, Africana Studies, South African Studies, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Decolonial Studies, Philosophy
EXHIBITION RECORD (Selection of)
2019 ‘War of the Roses’ Solo Exhibition (Gallery MOMO, Cape Town)
2018 EXPO Chicago (International Art Fair, Gallery MOMO)
2015 Johannesburg Art Fair (International Art Fair, Gallery MOMO)
‘PRESENT’ Solo Exhibition (Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa)
‘Toward Intersections: Negotiating Subjects’ (UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa)
2014 Kampala BIENNALE (International Biennial Art Exhibition, Kampala, UGANDA)
‘AVELOKITESHIVARA’ (Solo Exhibition, Sattva Studio, Los Angeles, California)
2013 ‘VISTAS’ (Center for African Studies Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa)
2012 ‘PROMISE’ (South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa)
2006 ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ (Higher Gallery, Chicago, IL)
2000 FINCO Arts Exhibition (Nassau, Bahamas)
CURATED EVENTS & EXHIBITION PROJECTS (Highlights)
2017 Looking After Freedom (Traveling Curatorial Project, Co-curated with Nkule Mabaso)
Cape Town; Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2017 The Visual Subject (Curatorial Project, Co-curator Nkule Mabaso) Bellville. South Africa.
2013 The Exuberance Project (Cape Town, Mandela Rhodes Gallery).
2011 The Names We Give Symposium & Performances (The University of Cape Town)
2010 Extreme Studio (Co-curated with Sabina Ott. A+D Gallery) Chicago. USA.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. Knowledge and Ethics in Contemporary South African Art (MS Under Contract, 2021)
New York & London: Routledge.
2. Promise: Visuality in Contemporary South Africa (2013) ed. Raél Jero Salley (UCT)
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: CHAPTERS & ARTICLES
1. “Visions, Writings and Walls: Perceptual Learning and the artwork of Kemang Wa Lehulere” in Critical African Studies (2021) Ed. Shose Kessi (Cambridge: Harvard University Press)
2. “Potentials of Exchange, Fellowship, and Love: Contemporary Art, Citizenship, and Performance in South Africa” in Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture: Making and Being Made (2018) Ed. Corey Dzenko and Theresa Avila (New York: Routledge).
3. “’If You’re Black, You really are coming from behind’: Kerry James Marshall” (2016) MOMUS Journal
4. Vistas (2013) ed. Rael Jero Salley Exhibition Catalogue
5. “Remembrance: the Essop brothers, formative realism and contemporary African photography” Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies 40 (3), 2014, pages 495-513 Journal
6. “Vecinos. Neighbours ‘Home is the planet, don’t accept anything else’”: The Postcolonialist ISSN: 2330-510X (online) 24 February 2014. http://postcolonialist.com/
7. “The Changing Now of Things” Third Text Special Issue: “The Art of Change in South Africa” 122, vol. 27 (3) May 2013, pages 355-366 Journal
8. “Jared Thorne’s Black Folk: ‘I who speak here am’” Art South Africa: 11 (3) Autumn 2013, pages 40-41
9. “Charting Dreams: Dineo Bopape” Art South Africa: 11(4) Winter 2013, pgs 34-38 Journal
10. “Romare Bearden and Sam Nhengethwa: Collage, Jazz, Politics and Everything In-Between” Sam Nhengethwa (Johannesburg: UNISA) Book Chapter
11. “The New Danger of the Pure Idea” Kerry James Marshall (Vienna: Secession Gallery 2012) Book Chapter
12. “Abstraction” (2012) Uncontained The Community Arts Project (Cape Town: University of the Western Cape) Book Chapter
13. “Zanele Muholi’s Elements of Survival” African Arts Journal: 45 (4) Winter 2012, pgs 58-69 Journal
14. “Zanele Muholi’s Photographs” in The Queer Africa Reader, ed. Sokari Ekine and Hakima Abbas (Nairobi: Pambazuka Press, 2013) ISBN-10: 0857490990. Book Chapter
15. “No One Size Fits All: Painting and Design” Art South Africa (2011): 9 (3) Autumn 2011, pages 40-41 Journal
16. “Extreme Studio: Beyond Convention” in Extreme Studio, ed. Sabina Ott, Rael Salley (Chicago: Columbia College Chicago, 2011) Catalogue Essay
17. Review of Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension by Sally Price and Richard Price. Transforming Anthropology TA 19(1), Spring 2011 Review
18. “To be Determined: Romare Bearden’s Mysteries” in Romare Bearden in the Modernist Tradition, ed. Kobena Mercer et al. (New York: Romare Bearden Foundation, 2007 ISBN- 9780615202914. Book Chapter
19. “Imagine Equality: Hank Willis Thomas” Art South Africa (2010): 9 (2) Fall 2010, pages 36-39 Journal
20. “UltraBlackLight: Kerry James Marshall’s Artworks” Chicago Art Journal: Autumn 2010. Journal
21. “Trying to talk to you while I’m looking at me” in Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other, ed. Robert Sill (Springfield: Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL, 2009). ISBN-13: 9780897921701. Book Chapter
22. “Unfinished Visuality: Contemporary Art & Black Diaspora 1964-2008” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009).
23. “Body, Mind, Culture: Woolfalk and Lears’ Ethnography of No Place,” Emisferica 5.2 Race and its Others (December 2008): http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/e-misferica-52
Raél Jero Salley
Curriculum Vitae
DOB: 29-May-1979. Pennsylvania, USA
Mail: 4047 The Alameda. Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
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web: www.raelsalley.com
www.gallerymomo.com/artists/112-rael-jero-salley/exhibitions/
email: rael.salley@gmail.com
CURRENT
2020 Founding Director The Space for Black Creative Imagination
2015— Professor & Chair Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Baltimore MD
2018— Honorary Research Associate (Philosophy) University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape.
2014—2020 Visiting Professor (Africana Studies) University of California, Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2009 PhD., The University of Chicago
The Committee on the History of Culture. Art History & Visual Studies
Dissertation Chair: W.J.T. Mitchell
2004 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fine Art Practice (Painting) & Art History, Theory, & Criticism
2002 BFA, The Rhode Island School of Design
1999 Brown University (Coursework)
1997 Dartmouth College
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2020 AICAD BIPOC Leadership Program. Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design
2019 Leadership & Management Course. Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University
2017 Certification, Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL, ELL) Anaheim University
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Art History and Visual Studies, Theory and Criticism, Visual Art Studio Practice (Media: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking, Interdisciplinary), Curatorial Practice, Modern and Contemporary Art, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, American Art, Africana Studies, South African Studies, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Decolonial Studies, Philosophy
EXHIBITION RECORD (Selection of)
2019 ‘War of the Roses’ Solo Exhibition (Gallery MOMO, Cape Town)
2018 EXPO Chicago (International Art Fair, Gallery MOMO)
2015 Johannesburg Art Fair (International Art Fair, Gallery MOMO)
‘PRESENT’ Solo Exhibition (Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa)
‘Toward Intersections: Negotiating Subjects’ (UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa)
2014 Kampala BIENNALE (International Biennial Art Exhibition, Kampala, UGANDA)
‘AVELOKITESHIVARA’ (Solo Exhibition, Sattva Studio, Los Angeles, California)
2013 ‘VISTAS’ (Center for African Studies Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa)
2012 ‘PROMISE’ (South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa)
2006 ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ (Higher Gallery, Chicago, IL)
2000 FINCO Arts Exhibition (Nassau, Bahamas)
CURATED EVENTS & EXHIBITION PROJECTS (Highlights)
2017 Looking After Freedom (Traveling Curatorial Project, Co-curated with Nkule Mabaso)
Cape Town; Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2017 The Visual Subject (Curatorial Project, Co-curator Nkule Mabaso) Bellville. South Africa.
2013 The Exuberance Project (Cape Town, Mandela Rhodes Gallery).
2011 The Names We Give Symposium & Performances (The University of Cape Town)
2010 Extreme Studio (Co-curated with Sabina Ott. A+D Gallery) Chicago. USA.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. Knowledge and Ethics in Contemporary South African Art (MS Under Contract, 2021)
New York & London: Routledge.
2. Promise: Visuality in Contemporary South Africa (2013) ed. Raél Jero Salley (UCT)
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: CHAPTERS & ARTICLES
1. “Visions, Writings and Walls: Perceptual Learning and the artwork of Kemang Wa Lehulere” in Critical African Studies (2021) Ed. Shose Kessi (Cambridge: Harvard University Press)
2. “Potentials of Exchange, Fellowship, and Love: Contemporary Art, Citizenship, and Performance in South Africa” in Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture: Making and Being Made (2018) Ed. Corey Dzenko and Theresa Avila (New York: Routledge).
3. “’If You’re Black, You really are coming from behind’: Kerry James Marshall” (2016) MOMUS Journal
4. Vistas (2013) ed. Rael Jero Salley Exhibition Catalogue
5. “Remembrance: the Essop brothers, formative realism and contemporary African photography” Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies 40 (3), 2014, pages 495-513 Journal
6. “Vecinos. Neighbours ‘Home is the planet, don’t accept anything else’”: The Postcolonialist ISSN: 2330-510X (online) 24 February 2014. http://postcolonialist.com/
7. “The Changing Now of Things” Third Text Special Issue: “The Art of Change in South Africa” 122, vol. 27 (3) May 2013, pages 355-366 Journal
8. “Jared Thorne’s Black Folk: ‘I who speak here am’” Art South Africa: 11 (3) Autumn 2013, pages 40-41
9. “Charting Dreams: Dineo Bopape” Art South Africa: 11(4) Winter 2013, pgs 34-38 Journal
10. “Romare Bearden and Sam Nhengethwa: Collage, Jazz, Politics and Everything In-Between” Sam Nhengethwa (Johannesburg: UNISA) Book Chapter
11. “The New Danger of the Pure Idea” Kerry James Marshall (Vienna: Secession Gallery 2012) Book Chapter
12. “Abstraction” (2012) Uncontained The Community Arts Project (Cape Town: University of the Western Cape) Book Chapter
13. “Zanele Muholi’s Elements of Survival” African Arts Journal: 45 (4) Winter 2012, pgs 58-69 Journal
14. “Zanele Muholi’s Photographs” in The Queer Africa Reader, ed. Sokari Ekine and Hakima Abbas (Nairobi: Pambazuka Press, 2013) ISBN-10: 0857490990. Book Chapter
15. “No One Size Fits All: Painting and Design” Art South Africa (2011): 9 (3) Autumn 2011, pages 40-41 Journal
16. “Extreme Studio: Beyond Convention” in Extreme Studio, ed. Sabina Ott, Rael Salley (Chicago: Columbia College Chicago, 2011) Catalogue Essay
17. Review of Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension by Sally Price and Richard Price. Transforming Anthropology TA 19(1), Spring 2011 Review
18. “To be Determined: Romare Bearden’s Mysteries” in Romare Bearden in the Modernist Tradition, ed. Kobena Mercer et al. (New York: Romare Bearden Foundation, 2007 ISBN- 9780615202914. Book Chapter
19. “Imagine Equality: Hank Willis Thomas” Art South Africa (2010): 9 (2) Fall 2010, pages 36-39 Journal
20. “UltraBlackLight: Kerry James Marshall’s Artworks” Chicago Art Journal: Autumn 2010. Journal
21. “Trying to talk to you while I’m looking at me” in Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other, ed. Robert Sill (Springfield: Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL, 2009). ISBN-13: 9780897921701. Book Chapter
22. “Unfinished Visuality: Contemporary Art & Black Diaspora 1964-2008” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009).
23. “Body, Mind, Culture: Woolfalk and Lears’ Ethnography of No Place,” Emisferica 5.2 Race and its Others (December 2008): http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/e-misferica-52
PUBLIC ADDRESSES & PRESENTATIONS
1. “Unmaking Racism” (Department of Illustration, MICA. Whitney Sherman, Chair. November 2020).
2. “Discussing ‘The Space for Creative Black Imagination’” (Department of Architectural Design, MICA. Frank Fanatuzzi, Chair. October 2020).
3. “On the 4th Industrial Revolution & the Arts” (Invited Speaker: University of Johannesburg, ZA. November 2019)
4. “Holding Space”: Care and Contemporary American Art (Presenter: “The James Porter Colloquium”: Howard University, Washington, D.C. April 2019)
5. “Blackness, Care, and Love” (Panel Co-Convener with LeRonn Brooks. College Arts Association: New York, NY. February 2019)
6. “Enabling Freedom Together” (Presenter: “Education & Social Justice” 8th International Conference on Education and Social Justice, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, October 2018)
7. Moderator: “New Art Histories Scholars Panel,” The James Porter Colloquium: Howard University, Washington, D.C. April 2018)
8. “Conditional Uncertainty: Collective, Curating, and Africana” (Presenter: “Curatorial Care, Humanising Practices” Autograph ABP & VIAD: University of Johannesburg. Johannesburg, ZA, April 2018)
9. “Collectivities” (Panel Co-Convener with Tobias Wofford. College Arts Association: Los Angeles, CA. February 2018)
10. “Beyond Art Practice” (Convener. Panel Discussion with Penny Siopis, Hasan Essop, and Jackie Karuti. Investec Cape Town Art Fair: Cape Town, ZA 2018)
11. “Imagining the Black Subject: Mohau Modisekeng’s Performance” (Black Extraordinary: Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, September 2017)
12. “On Looking After Freedom” (Keynote: 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY 2017)
13. “Dreams, Imagination & Pictures: On Modisekeng’s Artwork” (Visual Histories: University of the Western Cape, Bellville, WC, South Africa 2017)
14. “On Kemang Wa Lehulere” (Panel: Fictions by Krista Thompson. ACASA Conference, Accra, Ghana 2017)
15. “Museums, Memory and Freedom” (Panel: Julie McGee. College Arts Association, New York 2017)
16. “On Seeing After Freedom” (Panel Presentation: College Arts Association, Washington DC 2016)
17. “Art, Culture, Diversity and Equity: On best practices” (Keynote: California Institute of the Arts Diversity and Equity, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA, USA 19 Oct 2014)
18. “Contemporary Art in South Africa: Theorizing Formative Realism” (Presentation: South African Visual and Art Historians (SAVAH) Conference, UCT, Cape Town 8 September 2013)
19. “The Changing Now of Things” (Lecture: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA 15 March 2013)
20. “On African Exuberance” (Lecture and Discussion: Talking Heads: Africa Centre, Cape Town 8 May 2013)
21. “The Exuberance Project” (Keynote Presentation: The Gordon Institute for Creative and Performing Arts, Cape Town. 11 May 2012)
22. “The Changing Now of Things” (Keynote Paper presented at HUMA, The Center for Humanities at The University of Cape Town, Cape Town. 26 April 2012)
23. “Dialogues Between Past and Present” (Paper: 38th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England, UK. 29-31 March 2012)
24. “Fore-Sights: Prospects for Africana Visuality” (Panel Convened at the Undisciplining Knowledges Conference, The Center for African Studies, University of Cape Town 13-15 December 2011)
25. “Chaotic Vision” (Paper presented at the Undisciplining Knowledges Conference, Center for African Studies, University of Cape Town 13-15 December 2011)
26. “Zanele Muholi: ‘the face I love’” (Paper presented at the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, Los Angeles, UCLA 15-18 June 2011)
27. “’the names we give’: On hosting, being hosted, and the visual world’” (Keynote address presented at ‘the names we give’ Events, Cape Town, UCT 13-15 May 2011)
28. Johannesburg Workshop on Theory and Criticism (JWTC) (Fellow, Techniques of Capital: Property, Self-Creation and Politics in Precarious Times 18-28 July 2010)
29. “On Contemporary Art and Black Diaspora” (Paper presented at “Black Knowledges,” Universiteit Van Amsterdam, July 2010)
30. “Ultrablacklight: Kerry James Marshall’s 7am Sunday Morning and Black Artist” (Paper in Blackness as Model, Huey Copeland, Chair. College Arts Association, 98th Annual Conference, Chicago 10-13 February 2010)
31. “Out of Time: Moments in Yinka Shonibare's Diary of a Victorian Dandy” (Paper presented at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian. Washington, D.C., U.S.A. December 12, 2009)
32. “Remembering Me: Bili Bidjocka’s L’Écriture Infinie #3.” (Lecture presented at The University of Cape Town, South Africa, October 2009).
33. “Knowing present past: Shonibare's Diary & Diaspora” (Paper presented at “Seeing Knowledge Work,” University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2008)
34. “Blackness in 99 Problems: Looking, Seeing and Representing in Music Video” (Paper presented at “Optika,” University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), 2006)
35. “On Yinka Shonibare and Hybridity” (Paper presented at “Theorizing African and Black Diaspora,” DePaul University, Chicago 2006)
36. “Yinka Shonibare and Memory” (Paper presented at “The Politics of Memory,” University of Toronto, 2006)
ADVISING, DESIGNED COURSES, & TEACHING
▪ Unmaking Racism: Institution-wide, Interdisciplinary Minor Curriculum (MICA)
▪ Modernity, Difference, & Power: Advanced Course Art History (MICA, 3 Credits/semester)
▪ Art History and Its Methods: Art History Methodology (MICA, 3 Credits/semester)
▪ Art Matters, Cities & Empires : Intro to Art History (MICA, 3 Credits/semester)
▪ Graduate Survey of Contemporary Art (MICA, 3 Credits/semester x 2 semesters)
▪ Special Topic Course: ‘Seeing After Freedom’ (MICA, 3 Credits/semester x 1 semesters)
▪ Africana Art (MICA, 3 Credits/semester x 4 semesters; UCLA, 3 Credits/quarter)
▪ African American Art (MICA, 3 Credits/semester x 2 semesters)
▪ Seeing After Freedom (UCLA, 3 Credits/quarter x 3 quarters)
▪ Emergence of African Modernisms (UCT, 3 Credits/semester x 4 semesters)
▪ Theory of Art 3 (UCT, 3 Credits/semester x 4)
▪ Strategies for Art in Times of Change (UCT, 3 Credits/semester x 4)
▪ ’the names we give’: Art, Culture and Society (Public Workshops)
▪ Second, Third and Fourth Year Painting Studio (UCT, 3 Credits/semester x 8)
▪ Critical Theory (Dept of Religious Studies) (UCT, 3 Credits/semester x 1)
▪ Post Graduate Advising (in Honours, MA(FA), and MFA)
▪ Khanyisile Mbongwa (Honours Curatorship, Distinction Earned)
▪ Alta Botha (MFA, Distinction Earned)
▪ Jody Paulsen (MFA, Distinction Earned)
▪ Kathy Robins (PG Diploma)
▪ Abel Mputing (MAFA)
▪ Doctoral Advising (PhD)
▪ Riason Naidoo (PhD, supervision transferred in 2015)
▪ Muthoni Kimani (PhD, supervision transferred in 2015)
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS, EVENTS
2020 AICAD BIPOC Leadership Institute, Fellow
2019 Professional Development Grant, MICA “Leadership & Management Course”
2018 College Arts Association, Co-convener (w/ LeRonn Brooks): “Blackness, Care, & Love”
2017 College Arts Association, Co-convener (w/ Tobias Wooford): “Collectivities”
Professional Development Grant, MICA “English Language Learning”
2015 & 2017 Lucas Grant Award for Curriculum and Teaching, Maryland Institute College of Art
2016 College Arts Association Session: Race, Remembrance, and Reconciliation:
International Dialogue in National Museums (Julie McGee, Convenor)
2011-14 Knowledge Interchange & Collaboration Grant (NRF), South Africa.
2010-11 Fellowship, Gordon Institute for the Fine and Performing Arts
Director, Postgraduate Research Travel Trip: Sao Paulo Biennial
Fellowship, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (WITS University)
2008-09 Institut D’Études Politiques De Paris Ecole Doctorale, Fellow
Universiteit Van Amsterdam International Humanities Workshop: Black Europe
Doctoral Fellowship in Africana Studies, Florida International University (Declined)
Derrick Gondwe Fellowship in the Humanities, Gettysburg College (Declined)
2007-09 Fellow, Diversifying Faculty in Illinois
2007 The Provost’s Research Fellowship, The University of Chicago
Research Fellow, The University of Chicago Paris Center
2005 Kamiyama Artist in Residency Program (Kamiyama, Japan)
RELEVANT PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
2010 – 2015 Senior Lecturer in Art History, Discourse & Fine Art Practice. (Tenured Faculty)
University of Cape Town, The Michaelis School of Fine Art
2013– 2014 Interim Head of Dept: Art History and Discourse, The Michaelis School of Fine Art
2008-10 Lecturer in Art History, Columbia College, Chicago (University, 9 credits/semester x 4)
2005-08 Adjunct Faculty in Art History, Columbia College, Chicago
Adjunct Faculty in Art History, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007 Lecturer, Anthropology, The University of Chicago (University, 3 credits/quarter x 6)
2006 Adjunct Faculty in Philosophy, Prairie State College (Chicago Heights)
Teaching Intern, The University of Chicago (University, 3 credits per quarter x 2)
Mentor, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, The University of Chicago
2005 Writing Lector, The University of Chicago (University, 3 credits per quarter x 3)
Instructor, Printmaking, MARWEN (Public Arts Program, Secondary school)
Instructor, Drawing and Painting, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (Adult Education)
Instructor, The University of Chicago-Kenwood Academy Program for Academic
Excellence (with Melissa Harris-Perry). Secondary School.
2004 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Painting The University of Illinois, Chicago
2004-06 Instructor, Upward Bound, Columbia College Chicago (Secondary School)
2006 Instructor, Fine Arts for college preparatory high school students. (Secondary School)
2005 Instructor, The University of Chicago-Kenwood Academy Program for Academic Excellence (Secondary School)
2003 Managing Editor, FNews Magazine, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Instructor, The Chicago Park District (Primary School)
Instructor, Rhode Island Arts Workshops, Little Compton, RI (Primary School)
2002-03 Instructor, Hearing Impaired Learners, Gallery 37 Connections Program, Chicago, IL
2002 Instructor, Highland Court Assisted Living Facility, Providence, RI (Continuing Ed)
Instructor, Barton Street Community Center, Pawtucket, RI (Primary School)
Instructor, New Urban Arts, Providence, RI
2001 Instructor, Parks and People Foundation (Superkids Literacy Program) Baltimore, MD
2000 Teaching Assistant, “Printmaking” The Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI.
Teaching Assistant, FINCO Arts Workshop, Nassau, Bahamas (Secondary School)
SERVICE & ADMINISTRATION
▪ Chair, Department of Art History, Theory, & Criticism. MICA (2019-2022)
▪ The Getty Research Institute, AAAHI Fellowship Selection Committee (2021)
▪ Program Review, Art History, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. SAIC (2020)
▪ Founding Director, The Space for Creative Black Imagination (2020)
▪ Institutional Assessment Committee, MICA (2018-2020)
▪ Chair, Art History Full-Time Faculty Search Committee. MICA (2019)
▪ Graduate Liberal Arts Committee, MICA (2019)
▪ Member, Art History Full-Time Faculty Search Committee. MICA (2018)
▪ College Arts Association, Professional Committee on Diversity Practices (2015-19)
▪ President’s Task Force on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, MICA (2015-18)
▪ Chair, Institute-Wide Cultural Expansion Committee, MICA (2015-18)
▪ Masters of Art Education Full-Time Faculty Search Committee. MICA (2017)
▪ Member, Art History Full-Time Faculty Search Committee. MICA (2016)
▪ Visiting Critic, MICA Interdisciplinary Sculpture (2015)
▪ Promotion Assessor, WITS University, Art Theory & Practice (2015)
▪ Honorary Doctorate Assessor, University of Cape Town (2015)
▪ Chair, Art History and Discourse, University of Cape Town (2013)
▪ External Examiner (MFA and Undergraduate) VAAL University (RSA) (2014-15)
▪ External Examiner (MFA) UNISA (RSA) 2019
▪ Promotion Assessor University of Zimbabwe (2013)
▪ External Examiner (PhD) University of Zimbabwe (2012)
▪ External Examiner (MFA and Undergraduate) University of Stellenbosch (2013)
▪ Postgraduate Degrees Committee (UCT)
▪ Portfolio Selection Admissions Committee
▪ Permanent and Contract Faculty Selection Committees: (University Administrative Staff, Tenure-Track Position, African Studies)
▪ Michaelis School of Fine Art Lecture Series Convener
▪ Section Coordinator: International Student Exchange (Michaelis School of Fine Art)
▪ Lecturer: Teachers Workshop, Frank Joubert Community Art Workshop
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
▪ Reviewer: Arts Journal (Journal, College Arts Association Press)
▪ Reviewer: African Arts (Journal, Duke University Press, UCLA)
▪ Reviewer: Social Dynamics (Taylor & Francis Journal)
▪ Africana Arts, Culture, Theory & Society (AACTS) Research Inst. (Cape Town)
▪ ‘the names we give’ Public Arts programme (UCT, Cape Town)
▪ Contributing Editor: The Postcolonialist (postcolonialist.com)
▪ Association of Visual Artists: Executive Board Member (South Africa 2012-2015)
▪ Arts Council Association for the Study of African Art (ACASA 2009-2018)
▪ Collegium for African American Research (DE)
▪ Association of Art Historians (UK)
▪ South African Visual Art Historians (RSA)
▪ “dialogoglobal” Studies in Black Europe (NL)