Erica James

National Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, The Bahamas

July–August 2006

Erica Moiah James is director and chief curator of the newly established National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. She is a scholar of African diasporic art, specializing in Caribbean art. As the director of a national institution, her recent curatorial and scholarly work has centered on contemporary art history within former colonized societies and the relationship between this practice and the increasingly post-national and globalized discourses of art history. She recently curated an exhibition of African art in the Bahamas entitled What Is Africa to Me? and co-curated an exhibition of contemporary Bahamian art at the Nassaurischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany. Her project at the Clark will explore the development of a new text and various educational materials on Bahamian art history.