Assistant Professor
williale@email.unc.edu
Lyneise Williams (PhD., Yale University) is Assistant Professor in
the Department of Art. Her scholarly interests
include race and representation, post-colonial theory, identity
formation, and visual
culture of the African Diaspora, particularly the cultural production
of Afro-Latinos. Within the diaspora, she is particularly interested in
the circuits of cultural intellectual, and political exchange between
the various black Latino, Anglophone, and francophone groups. Her
current research examines the intersection between Latin
American artists like Uruguayan painter, Pedro Figari (1861-1938) and
American artists in Paris during the 1920s and 30s. Since
1900, a relatively large population of Latin Americans from countries
such as Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil lived and worked in Paris. They
intermingled with other international and national artists in the
process of creating a space for their cultural products. Adapting and
rejecting perceived notions of Otherness, they created provocative
representations of identities that often blurred the boundaries between
cultures and nations. Williams has conducted research in Uruguay and
Argentina, in addition to Paris, London, and Brussels.
Beyond the African Diaspora, she has taught courses in museology and
worked extensively in museums and galleries as a curator, preparator,
and educator. Several exhibitions she curated dealt with both sides of
the Black Atlantic, exploring ideas such as appropriation,
"authenticity," commodification, and redefinition.
Williams has considerable public art experience and is a member of a
team of artists selected through an international competition to design
and create the North Carolina Freedom Monument in Raleigh, North
Carolina.
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