Lowery Sims

The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

February–June 2007

Lowery Sims is president of The Studio Museum in Harlem and former curator of modern art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a noted specialist in the field of Euro-American African Art, with particular emphasis on the work of Wilfredo Lam. In addition to authoring numerous significant catalogue essays for the Metropolitan, she has been a frequent contributor to such periodicals as Artforum and Arts Magazine. As a Clark Fellow, she will be examining the phenomena of appropriation and parody in the work of African-American artists, with particular attention to the contextualization of these works within contemporary criticism.