Kellie Jones (born 1959) is an American art historian and curator. She is a Professor in
Art History
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and
Archaeology
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Columbia University
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. She won a
MacArthur Fellowship
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in 2016.
Biography
Jones is the daughter of
poet
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s
Hettie Jones
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Yale University
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in 1999.
Her research interests include African Diaspora and African American artists, Latin American and Latino/a artists, and problems in contemporary art and museum theory. Jones has been published in journals such as ''NKA'', ''Artforum'', ''Flash Art'', ''Atlantica'', and ''Third Text''. Jones has worked as a curator for over three decades.
Jones has a half-brother,
Newark, New Jersey
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, and a half-sister, Dominique di Prima, from Amiri's relationship with di Prima's mother.
McColl Center for Art + Innovation
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*2018: College Art Association Award for Excellence in Diversity.
* 2019: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow.
Curated exhibits
Curated and co-curated exhibits:
*''Basquiat.'' New York: Brooklyn Museum, March 11, 2005 through June 5, 2005. Co-curators include
Marc Mayer
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Early life
Mayer was born and raised in a Franco-Ontarian
, Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, and Franklin Sirmans.
*''Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980''. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2006.
*''Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980.'' Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, October 2, 2011 – January 8, 2012; MOMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York, from October 21, 2012 – March 11, 2013; and at the
Williams College Museum of Art
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in Williamstown, MA, from July 20-December 1, 2013.
* ''Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.'' New York'':'' Brooklyn Museum, March 7–July 13, 2014. Co-curated by Teresa A. Carbone and Kellie Jones.
Books
* Jones, Kellie (2002). ''Lorna Simpson''. London: Phaidon Press.
* Jones, Kellie (2011). ''EyeMinded: Living And Writing Contemporary Art.'' Durham:
Duke University Press
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.
* Jones, Kellie (2011). ''Now Dig This!: Art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980.'' Los Angeles: Hammer Museum.
* Jones, Kellie (2017). ''South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s.'' Durham: Duke University Press.