Juana Williams is a Detroit-based curator, writer, and arts administrator whose work approaches visual culture through epistemological and historical frameworks to examine how knowledge, memory, and identity are produced, circulated, and contested in modern and contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas. Her practice engages cross-border intellectual history, cultural memory, and diasporic identity formation, positioning visual culture as a site of knowledge production and critical intervention through which she interrogates social and cultural issues, challenges the normative boundaries of art criticism and curatorial practice, and intervenes in the reproduction of anti-Blackness within the arts.
Williams has held curatorial and academic appointments at institutions including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Library Street Collective, Wayne State University, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art. Her curatorial projects have been presented at institutions across the United States and France, including the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Her work has been featured in publications such as Artsy, Beaux Arts Magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, Michigan Chronicle, and Observer. She has delivered lectures at museums and universities and contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs, including the forthcoming Jamea Richmond-Edwards: Another World and Yet the Same (Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College).
Williams holds a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Art History from Wayne State University.
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