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Full CV (pdf)*abridged*
Born in Miami, Florida. Based in Miami, Florida, and Washington, DC.
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2006 – present
Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2011
Ph.D. Candidate with distinction in Anthropology, 2009
M.A. in Anthropology, 2008
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1999 – 2003
B.A. in Ethnic Studies and Fine Arts
Residencies and Visiting Positions
Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2011 – 2012
Visiting Researcher, University of Miami, Center for Latin American Studies, 2009 -2011
Artist in Residence, Deering Estate at Cutler Bay, 2010 – 2011
Graduate Resident, Center for World Performance Studies, University of Michigan, 2008 – 2009
Recent Exhibitions
2012
Miami Moments 2012: Contemporary Vasari Project, Miami-Dade County Public Library, Miami, Florida
2011
Four minutes, thirty-three seconds, LegalArt, Miami, Florida
Forever Forged. Forever Becoming, African and African Caribbean Design Diaspora presented by ARC, Bargehouse, London
SoBay Art Festival, Deering Estate at Cutler Bay, Miami, Florida
2010
New Work Miami 2010: Afterhours, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Artists for Artists in Distress, Arteamericas with the Haitian Art Relief Fund, Miami, Florida
2009
Race, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Selected Publications and Presentations
Tracing the Terrain of Contemporary Caribbean Art in Miami, Florida, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, April 13, 2012.
History, Memory, and Performance in Contemporary Black Photographic Practice: Noelle Théard and Donnalyn Anthony, Performing History, Memory, and Identity in the Black World, Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 23 – 24, 2012.
Mobile Portrait Studio, Nueva Luz, 16:1, En Foco, Bronx, Winter 2011.
Performativity in Visual Art of the Caribbean Diaspora: Traces, Actions, and Social Practice in the Work of Noelle Theárd, Antonia Wright, and Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez,” Tracing Performance Aesthetics in Africa, the Caribbean, and their Diasporas: History Making, Public Art, Social Practice, and Subjectivity, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, November 16 – 20, 2011.
Artists Mapping Miami, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens’ Contemporary Art Projects, March 30, 2011.
Photography and Memory: Reconstructing the Family Album – Elizabeth Cerejido and Nereida García-Ferraz, Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture, University of Miami and the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, Florida, March 3 – 6, 2010.
Performance in the Archive: Re-imagining the Cuban Diaspora and Contemporary Cuban Art through the Performance-based Photography of María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Marta Maria Peréz Bravo, Virtual Caribbeans: A Conference on Representation, Diaspora, and Performance in and on the Caribbean, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 27 – March 1, 2008.