Left to right: Mia Locks, Kalia Brooks Nelson, Charlotte Kotik. Courtesy of Moore College.
Kalia Brooks Nelson, faculty in the NYU Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging, will guest curate the second of three shows in a new series by The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design.
The Visiting Curators Initiative will focus on engaging new artistic input from three curators who will bring their visions to The Galleries at Moore, a hub for contemporary art and creative exploration in the heart of Philadelphia: Mia Locks, senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Dr. Brooks Nelson, a New York-based curator and educator; and Charlotta Kotik, an independent curator based in Brooklyn.
Exhibition opens September 25, 2020; on view September 26 through December 5, 2020
Kalia Brooks Nelson is a New York–based curator and educator, currently teaching at the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, focusing on visual cultural theory, the history of photography and the business of art. She is a member of a committee facilitating an international conference series titled Black Portraitures, around the image of the black body in Western art and culture. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including exhibitions at New York City Hall; International Center of Photography, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn, NY; California College of the Arts, San Francisco; and Arts Initiative Tokyo, Japan. Brooks holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, ME; an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts; and a BA in Sociology and Geography from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program and an ex-officio board trustee of the Museum of the City of New York.