Nikki A. Greene

Beinecke Short-Term Fellow

06/07/2024–08/09/2024

Nikki A. Greene is associate professor of art history at Wellesley College. Her forthcoming book, Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and The Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke University Press, 2024) presents a new interpretation of the work of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and considers the intersection between the body, black identity, and the sonic possibilities of the visual using key examples of painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and installation. Recent projects include co-producing the film When We Gather (2021); serving as an advisor to the ICA Boston for the 59th Venice Biennale, presenting the work of Simone Leigh for the United States Pavilion in 2022; and joining the inaugural New England Humanities Consortium’s Faculty of Color Working Group Mellon Fellows (2021–22) as a visiting scholar at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University.