Kellie Jones
{{short description|American art historian and curator (born 1959)}}
{{For|those of a similar name|Kelly Jones (disambiguation)}}
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Kellie Jones (born 1959) is an American art historian and curator. She is a Professor in Art History and Archaeology in African American Studies at Columbia University. She won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/959/|title=Kellie Jones|website=MacArthur Fellows Program|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|access-date=20 October 2017}}
In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.{{cite web | url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023 | title=The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2023 }}
Biography
Jones is the daughter of poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2016-09-26|title=Professor Kellie Jones named MacArthur Fellow|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/news/professor-kellie-jones-named-macarthur-fellow|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123203902/https://www.college.columbia.edu/news/professor-kellie-jones-named-macarthur-fellow|archive-date=2021-01-23|access-date=2021-01-23|website=Columbia College}} Jones graduated from Amherst College in 1981.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amherst.edu/news/calendar/node/672020|title=Talk by Kellie Jones '81, Art Historian, Curator and 2016 MacArthur Fellow {{!}} Amherst College|website=www.amherst.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-07-10}} She was awarded a Ph.D. by Yale University in 1999.{{Cite web|title=Kellie Jones|url=https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/kellie-jones|access-date=2021-01-23|website=The Center for the Humanities|language=en-US}}
Her research interests include African Diaspora and African American artists, Latin American and Latino/a artists, and problems in contemporary art and museum theory.{{cite web |date= |title=Kellie Jones - Department of Art History and Archaeology - Columbia University |url=https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/kellie-jones |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=arthistory.columbia.edu}} 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, mayor Ras Baraka, and a half-sister, Dominique di Prima, from Amiri's relationship with di Prima's mother.{{cite web |title=Amiri Baraka |url=https://www.dominiquediprima.com/amiri-baraka/ |website=DominiqueDiPrima.com|date=28 June 2012 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.newark.nj.us/government/the_municipal_council/ras_j_baraka/ |title=City of Newark, NJ: Ras J. Baraka |publisher=City of Newark, New Jersey |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514110451/http://www.ci.newark.nj.us/government/the_municipal_council/ras_j_baraka/ |archive-date=May 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Awards and honors
- 2005: David C. Driskell Prize.{{cite web |url=https://www.high.org/en/Support/Driskell-Prize/Kellie-Jones |title=2005 Prize Winner: Dr. Kellie Jones |website=High.org |date=2014-08-21 |access-date=2016-03-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307105833/https://www.high.org/en/Support/Driskell-Prize/Kellie-Jones |archive-date=2016-03-07 }}
- 2012: Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation
- 2013: Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant.{{Cite web|url=https://warholfoundation.org/foundation/63_detail.html?printview=1|title=Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program Announces 2013 Grants|website=warholfoundation.org|language=en-us|access-date=2018-07-09}}
- 2013: Terra Foundation Fellow.{{Cite news|url=https://www.terraamericanart.org/fellows/kellie-jones/|title=Kellie Jones|work=Terra Foundation for American Art|access-date=2018-07-09|language=en-US}}
- 2016: MacArthur Fellows Program award.
- 2018: College Art Association Award for Excellence in Diversity.{{Cite news|url=http://www.collegeart.org/news/2018/01/25/caa-announces-2018-awards-for-distinction-recipients/|title=CAA Announces 2018 Awards for Distinction Recipients|last=Association|first=College Art|date=2018-01-25|work=CAA News {{!}} College Art Association|access-date=2018-07-10|language=en-US}}
- 2019: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow.{{Cite web|url=https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx|title=2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election|website=members.amacad.org|url-status=dead|access-date=2020-03-09|archive-date=2020-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302174101/https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx}}
Curated exhibits
Curated and co-curated exhibits:
- Basquiat. New York: Brooklyn Museum, March 11, 2005 through June 5, 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/614|title=Brooklyn Museum|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org|access-date=2018-07-09}} Co-curators include Marc Mayer, Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, and Franklin Sirmans.
- Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2006.{{Cite web|last=Moyer|first=Carrie|date=2006-06-12|title=Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964–1980|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2006/06/artseen/energy-experimentation|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123204359/https://brooklynrail.org/2006/06/artseen/energy-experimentation|archive-date=2021-01-23|access-date=2021-01-23|website=The Brooklyn Rail|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Meyer|first=Richard|date=January 2006|title=Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980" at The Studio Museum in Harlem|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/previews/200601/energy-experimentation-black-artists-and-abstraction-1964-1980-10101|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123204508/https://www.artforum.com/print/200601/energy-experimentation-black-artists-and-abstraction-1964-1980-10101|archive-date=2021-01-23|access-date=2021-01-23|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US}}
- 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 in Williamstown, MA, from July 20-December 1, 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/now-dig-this/|title=Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 {{!}} Now Dig This! digital archive {{!}} Hammer Museum|website=Hammer Museum|language=en|access-date=2018-07-09}}
- 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/witness_civil_rights/|title=Brooklyn Museum: Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org|access-date=2018-07-09}}
Books
- Jones, Kellie (2002). Lorna Simpson. London: Phaidon Press. {{ISBN|0714840386}}
- Jones, Kellie (2011). EyeMinded: Living And Writing Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke University Press. {{ISBN|978-0822348733}}
- Jones, Kellie (2011). Now Dig This!: Art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum. {{ISBN|978-3791351360}}
- Jones, Kellie (2017). South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Durham: Duke University Press. {{ISBN|978-0822361640}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.doctorkelliejones.com/ Kellie Jones' official website]
- [https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/kellie-jones Kellie Jones, Columbia University Department of Art History & Archaeology]
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