Erica Moiah James is an art historian, curator, and assistant professor at The University of Miami. Her scholarship centers on indigenous, modern, and contemporary art of the Caribbean Americas, and African Diaspora. Select publications include Charles White’s J’Accuse! and the Limits of Universal Blackness (AAAJ, 2016); Every N***r is a Star: Re-imaging Blackness from Post Civil Rights America to the Post-Independence Caribbean (Black Camera, 2016); Decolonizing Time: Nineteenth Century Haitian Portraiture and the Critique of Anachronism in Caribbean Art (NKA, 2019); The Black Sublime: Rene Pena’s Archangel, 2018 (SX 2019); Ricardo Brey’s Adrift (MER, B&L, 2019); and the book chapters Gust of Grace: Simone Leigh’s Las Meninas, 2019, (CMA and Yale UP, 2022) and La luz de cosas, on the work of artist Juan Francisco Elso (El Museo del Barrio and N.A.M.E. Books, 2023). In 2022 she curated Didier William: nou kite tout sa dèyè for the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and Nari Ward: Home of the Brave, Vilcek Foundation, NYC. Dr. James is the recipient of grants from Warhol Foundation/Creative Time, The Mellon Foundation and The Terra Foundation, and is a research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Center, University of Johannesburg, S.A. Her forthcoming book is entitled After Caliban: Caribbean Art in the Global Imaginary.
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