Romi Crawford

Romi Crawford, PhD, has a research practice that explores race and ethnicity as they relate to American visual culture including art, film, and photography, as well as the logics of artistic inheritance through forms of sociality, archives, pedagogies, and intergenerational collaboration. Recent curatorial projects include Citing Black Geographies (Richard Gray Gallery, 2022) and So Be It! Ase!: Photographic Echoes of Festac'77 (Richard Gray, 2023). Select publications include Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect (Green Lantern, 2021); “Reading Between the Photographs: Serious Sociality in the Kamoinge Photographic Workshop,” in Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop (Duke University, 2020); and “Surface and Soul in the Work of Nick Cave” in Nick Cave: Forothermore (DelMonico/MCA, 2022). She is Professor in the Visual and Critical Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and founder of the Black Arts Movement School Modality and the New Art School Modality.