Felicia Mings

Felicia Mings is a curator at The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University. She focuses on interpreting and presenting modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on arts of Africa, the Caribbean, and their diasporas. Mings’ is drawn toward creative practices that have been understudied or forged in moments of acute social and political pressure, and engage in an emancipatory politic. Mings' recent curatorial projects include Dele Adeyemo's digital art commission, From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire (2023) the exhibition Meleko Mokgosi: Imaging Imaginations (2023) and she is a recent recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Research Fellowship, for which she is studying the work of seminal Guyanese artist, anthropologist, educator, and novelist Denis Williams (1923-1998).

Prior to joining The Goldfarb Gallery, Mings spent seven years at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she most recently served as academic curator in the Research Center. Highlights of her Art Institute tenure include leading the Andrew W. Mellon Summer Academy and Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, co-curating the exhibitions, and co-editing the accompanying catalogues for Malangatana: Mozambique Modern (2020) and The People Shall Govern! Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Poster, 1979–1985 (2019).

Mings holds a Master of Arts in visual and critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College.