Christelle Lozère

University of the Antilles

04/10/2022 - 05/22/2022

Christelle Lozère is an associate professor of art history at the University of the Antilles and a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Art History (INHA) in Paris. The author of the book Bordeaux Colonial (Sud-Ouest, 2007), she has published numerous articles on the art history of the French West Indies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century slavery and post-slavery contexts, such as a chapter titled “La présence à Paris des artistes antillais. De l’académisme des Salons à une créolité artistique affirmée” in the edited volume Paris Créole, son histoire, ses écrivains, ses artistes XVIIIe-XXe siècle (2020), and on colonial exhibitions, the subject of her 2011 Musée d’Orsay Prize thesis. At the Clark, she will continue her research on the construction and dissemination of French West Indies imaginaries of painters, designers, sculptors, and photographers through American collections.