Grace Aneiza Ali

Guyanese-born Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and in the Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies Program, Department of Art History at Florida State University. Her curatorial, research, and teaching practices center on curatorial activism, art and migration, and art of the Caribbean Diaspora with a focus on her homeland Guyana. Her essays explore the psychic and liminal spaces of the migration arc: the ones who leave, those who stay, and those who are left. Her essays on contemporary art have been published in Arts Journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Wasafiri, Transition Magazine (Harvard University), Small Axe, and Nueva Luz Photographic Journal, among others. Her book, Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora (Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2020), explores the art and migration narratives of women of Guyanese heritage. She serves as Curator-at-Large for the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in New York and Editor-in-Chief of the College Art Associations’ Art Journal Open and she is a member of its Editorial Board. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships that have generously supported her research and scholarship, including a Fulbright Fellowship, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellowship, NYU Provost Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Grant, and Association of Art Museum Curators Professional Alliance of Curators of Color Fellowship, among others. Grace migrated from Guyana with her family to the United States when she was fourteen years old.