On May 5, 2025, I joined Texas State University in San Marcos to serve as Director and Chief Curator of Texas State Galleries in the School of Art and Design, where I lead the Galleries’ programming and advance its mission.
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I am currently adapting my doctoral dissertation into a book manuscript, In Favor of One’s Time: Locating the Curatorial Practices of Kynaston McShine, under contract with the University of Arkansas Press. This monograph provides the first critical study of Kynaston McShine (1935–2018), the first Black curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), examining his formative yet understudied contributions to exhibition histories and the visual lexicons of his time.
By considering McShine’s life and landmark exhibitions as points of convergence between discourses of art, curating, and diasporic thought, my research underscores the Caribbean’s vital role in shaping histories of modernism. This project contributes to urgent conversations about authorship, exhibition histories, representation, and gradations of identity in curatorial studies, museum studies, and contemporary art history.
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