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'''Nicole R. Fleetwood''' (February 24, 1973) is an American academic, curator, and author. She is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously Fleetwood was Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University.
'''Nicole R. Fleetwood''' (February 24, 1973) is an American academic, [[curator]], [[police abolitionist]], [[prison abolitionist]], and author. She is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor at [[New York University]]'s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, Fleetwood was Professor of American Studies and Art History at [[Rutgers University]].


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Fleetwood grew up and attended public schools in Hamilton, Ohio before briefly moving to Texas, then returning to graduate from Hamilton High School in 1990. She grew up in a large extended family of gospel, funk, and rock musicians. Her maternal relatives, the Troutmans, created the pioneering funk band [[Zapp (band)|Zapp]]. Fleetwood has spoken and written about the impact of music, policing, and imprisonment on her family and community.<ref>''Dreams are colder than deaths.'' Dir. Arthur Jafa. 2013. Film.</ref>
Fleetwood grew up and attended public schools in Hamilton, Ohio before briefly moving to Texas, then returning to graduate from Hamilton High School in 1990. She grew up in a large extended family of gospel, funk, and rock musicians. Her maternal relatives, the Troutmans, created the pioneering funk band [[Zapp (band)|Zapp]]. Fleetwood has spoken and written about the impact of music, policing, and imprisonment on her family and community.<ref>''Dreams are colder than deaths.'' Dir. Arthur Jafa. 2013. Film.</ref>


In 1992, Fleetwood was chosen for the Erasmus International Exchange program to study human rights law and feminist studies at Utrecht University. In 1994, Fleetwood received a bachelor of philosophy degree (B.Phil.) from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at [[Miami University of Ohio]] and her master’s degree and doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from [[Stanford University]] in 1998 and 2001, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nicole R. Fleetwood|url=https://amerstudies.rutgers.edu/people/core-faculty/nicole-r-fleetwood|access-date=2021-04-19|website=amerstudies.rutgers.edu}}</ref>
In 1992, Fleetwood was chosen for the Erasmus International Exchange program to study human rights law and feminist studies at [[Utrecht University]]. In 1994, Fleetwood received a bachelor of philosophy degree (B.Phil.) from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at [[Miami University of Ohio]] and her master's degree and doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from [[Stanford University]] in 1998 and 2001, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nicole R. Fleetwood|url=https://amerstudies.rutgers.edu/people/core-faculty/nicole-r-fleetwood|access-date=2021-04-19|website=amerstudies.rutgers.edu}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
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In 2012, Fleetwood won the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association for her book, ''Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality and Blackness'', published in 2011 with the University of Chicago Press. She published her second book, ''On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination'', in 2015 and a portion of it was translated into Italian for ''A fior di pelle: Bianchezza, nerezza, visualità'', a collection of chapters and essays on race and visuality.
In 2012, Fleetwood won the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association for her book, ''Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality and Blackness'', published in 2011 with the University of Chicago Press. She published her second book, ''On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination'', in 2015 and a portion of it was translated into Italian for ''A fior di pelle: Bianchezza, nerezza, visualità'', a collection of chapters and essays on race and visuality.


Fleetwood has organized several programs on visual culture, poverty studies, and carceral studies. In 2014, Fleetwood co-organized with her colleague Sarah Tobias ''[https://www.wnyc.org/story/marking-time-exhibit-shows-prison-made-art/ Marking Time: Prison Art and Activism]'', a conference and six-site exhibition at Rutgers University based on research that she had begun in 2010 on the visual culture of mass incarceration. In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition, ''State Goods: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration'', with Walter E. Puryear at the Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Roberta|last2=Schwendener|first2=Martha|date=2017-06-01|title=What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/arts/design/what-to-see-in-new-york-art-galleries-this-week.html|access-date=2021-04-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2018, Fleetwood collaborated with Aperture Foundation on ''[https://aperture.org/exhibition/prison-nation-2018/ Prison Nation],'' an issue of ''Aperture'' magazine and a traveling exhibition of the same name, focusing on photography’s role in documenting mass incarceration.
Fleetwood has organized several programs on visual culture, poverty studies, and carceral studies. In 2014, Fleetwood co-organized with her colleague Sarah Tobias ''Marking Time: Prison Art and Activism'', a conference and six-site exhibition at Rutgers University based on research that she had begun in 2010 on the visual culture of mass incarceration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/marking-time-exhibit-shows-prison-made-art/ |title=Marking Time: Exhibit Shows Prison-Made Art |date=2014-11-20|access-date=2022-03-06 |last=Jacobs|first=Emma|website=wnyc.org}}</ref> In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition, ''State Goods: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration'', with Walter E. Puryear at the Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Roberta|last2=Schwendener|first2=Martha|date=2017-06-01|title=What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/arts/design/what-to-see-in-new-york-art-galleries-this-week.html|access-date=2021-04-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2018, Fleetwood collaborated with Aperture Foundation on ''Prison Nation'', an issue of ''Aperture'' magazine and a traveling exhibition of the same name, focusing on photography's role in documenting mass incarceration.


In 2020'','' Harvard University Press published ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration'', Fleetwood’s decade-long study of the visual art and culture of contemporary prisons in the United States. The book has been included in several 2020 “best books” and selected reading lists by major media and cultural outlets such as the ''New York Times'', ''The National Book Foundation'' and the ''Smithsonian''. It won the 2020 National Book Critics Award in Criticism and became the only publication to win both the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in art history and the Frank Jewett Mather Award in art criticism from the College Art Association. The exhibition ''[http://press.moma.org/exhibition/marking-time/ Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration]'' (September 17, 2020 – April 5, 2021) was also curated by Fleetwood at MoMA PS1 based on the text. The exhibition was listed as “one of the most important art moments in 2020” by ''The New York Times,''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cotter|first=Holland|last2=Smith|first2=Roberta|last3=Farago|first3=Jason|date=2020-12-04|title=The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/arts/important-art-moments-2020.html|access-date=2021-04-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and among the best shows of the year by ''The New Yorker''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Scott|first=Andrea K.|title=The Best Art of 2020|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/the-best-art-of-2020|access-date=2021-04-19|website=The New Yorker|language=en-us}}</ref> and ''Hyperallergic''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cassell|first=Dessane Lopez|date=2020-12-30|title=2020: A Year in New York Exhibitions and More|url=https://hyperallergic.com/609351/2020-a-year-in-new-york-exhibitions-and-more/|access-date=2021-04-19|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}}</ref>''.''
In 2020'','' Harvard University Press published ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration'', Fleetwood's decade-long study of the visual art and culture of contemporary prisons in the United States. The book has been included in several 2020 "best books" and selected reading lists by major media and cultural outlets such as the ''New York Times'', ''The National Book Foundation'' and the ''Smithsonian''. It won the 2020 National Book Critics Award in Criticism and became the only publication to win both the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in art history and the Frank Jewett Mather Award in art criticism from the College Art Association. The exhibition ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration'' (September 17, 2020 – April 5, 2021) was also curated by Fleetwood at MoMA PS1 based on the text. The exhibition was listed as "one of the most important art moments in 2020" by ''The New York Times,''<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Cotter|first1=Holland|last2=Smith|first2=Roberta|last3=Farago|first3=Jason|date=2020-12-04|title=The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/arts/important-art-moments-2020.html|access-date=2021-04-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and among the best shows of the year by ''The New Yorker''<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Scott|first=Andrea K.|title=The Best Art of 2020|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/the-best-art-of-2020|access-date=2021-04-19|magazine=The New Yorker| date=30 December 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref> and ''Hyperallergic''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cassell|first=Dessane Lopez|date=2020-12-30|title=2020: A Year in New York Exhibitions and More|url=https://hyperallergic.com/609351/2020-a-year-in-new-york-exhibitions-and-more/|access-date=2021-04-19|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}}</ref>' Following the presentation at MoMA PS1, ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration'' was exhibited at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at the [[University of Alabama at Birmingham]] (September 17, 2021 – December 11, 2021).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Patel|first=Marionne|title=Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration - Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts {{!}} UAB|url=https://www.uab.edu/aeiva/exhibitions/marking-time|access-date=2021-10-13|website=www.uab.edu|language=en-gb}}</ref>


In 2021, Fleetwood joined New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development as the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor.
In 2021, Fleetwood joined New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development as the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor.


Fleetwood has written art catalogue essays and cultural criticism on [[Angela Davis|Angela Y. Davis]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=Reflections: The American Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art|publisher=Columbus Museum of Art in Association with Ohio University Press|year=2019|editor-last=Maciejunes|editor-first=Nannette|location=Columbus|pages=648–649|chapter=Deana Lawson’s Mohawk Correctional Series|editor-last2=Wolfe|editor-first2=M. Melissa}}</ref> [[John Edmonds (artist)|John Edmonds]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=The Quiet Risks of John Edmonds's Photographs {{!}} by Nicole R. Fleetwood|url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/30/the-quiet-risks-of-john-edmondss-photographs/|access-date=2021-04-19|website=The New York Review of Books|language=en}}</ref> [[Gordon Parks]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=The Atmosphere of Crime|publisher=Steidl and the Gordon Parks Foundation|year=2020|editor-last=Meister|editor-first=Sarah|pages=74–77|chapter=Policing and the Production of Crime}}</ref> [[Deana Lawson]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=Reflections: The American Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art|publisher=Columbus Museum of Art in Association with Ohio University Press|year=2019|editor-last=Maciejunes|editor-first=Nannette|location=Columbus|pages=648–649|chapter=Deana Lawson’s Mohawk Correctional Series}}</ref> [[Rihanna]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=The Case of Rihanna: Erotic Violence and Black Female Desire|journal=African American Review|volume=45.3|pages=419–435}}</ref> [[Mickalene Thomas]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me|publisher=Wexner Center for the Arts|year=2018|editor-last=Shafer|editor-first=Ryan|location=Columbus|pages=57–61|chapter=Mickalene Thomas’s World Making}}</ref> [[Fatimah Tuggar]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=Fatimah Tuggar: Home’s Horizons|publisher=Hirmer Publishers|year=2019|location=Munich|pages=50–59|chapter=The Non-Linear Temporalities of Fatimah Tuggar’s Media Art}}</ref> [[Diana Ross]], [[Serena Williams]], and [[LeBron James]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2015}}</ref> Fleetwood’s work has been covered by major media outlets including CNN, the Atlantic, National Public Radio, the New York Times, and the New Yorker.
Fleetwood has written art catalogue essays and cultural criticism on [[Angela Davis|Angela Y. Davis]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=Reflections: The American Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art|publisher=Columbus Museum of Art in Association with Ohio University Press|year=2019|editor-last=Maciejunes|editor-first=Nannette|location=Columbus|pages=648–649|chapter=Deana Lawson's Mohawk Correctional Series|editor-last2=Wolfe|editor-first2=M. Melissa}}</ref> [[John Edmonds (artist)|John Edmonds]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=The Quiet Risks of John Edmonds's Photographs {{!}} by Nicole R. Fleetwood|url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/30/the-quiet-risks-of-john-edmondss-photographs/|access-date=2021-04-19|website=The New York Review of Books|date=30 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref> [[Gordon Parks]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=The Atmosphere of Crime|publisher=Steidl and the Gordon Parks Foundation|year=2020|editor-last=Meister|editor-first=Sarah|pages=74–77|chapter=Policing and the Production of Crime}}</ref> [[Deana Lawson]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=Reflections: The American Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art|publisher=Columbus Museum of Art in Association with Ohio University Press|year=2019|editor-last=Maciejunes|editor-first=Nannette|location=Columbus|pages=648–649|chapter=Deana Lawson's Mohawk Correctional Series}}</ref> [[Rihanna]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=The Case of Rihanna: Erotic Violence and Black Female Desire|journal=African American Review| year=2012 |volume=45| issue=3 |pages=419–435| doi=10.1353/afa.2012.0047 | s2cid=161587296 }}</ref> [[Mickalene Thomas]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=Mickalene Thomas: I Can't See You Without Me|publisher=Wexner Center for the Arts|year=2018|editor-last=Shafer|editor-first=Ryan|location=Columbus|pages=57–61|chapter=Mickalene Thomas's World Making}}</ref> [[Fatimah Tuggar]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons|publisher=Hirmer Publishers|year=2019|location=Munich|pages=50–59|chapter=The Non-Linear Temporalities of Fatimah Tuggar's Media Art}}</ref> [[Diana Ross]], [[Serena Williams]], and [[LeBron James]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleetwood|first=Nicole R.|title=On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2015}}</ref> Fleetwood's work has been covered by major media outlets including CNN, the Atlantic, National Public Radio, the ''New York Times'', and ''The New Yorker''.


==Awards and honors==
==Awards and honors==
*2021 [https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/glasscock/programs/glasscock-book-prize/ Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship]
* 2021 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web | title=MacArthur Foundation Announces 2021 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners | website=The New York Times | date=September 28, 2021 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/arts/macarthur-foundation-announces-2021-genius-grant-winners.html | access-date=September 28, 2021}}</ref>
*2021 [https://www.theasa.net/node/134 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize], American Studies Association
* 2021 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web | title=MacArthur Foundation Announces 2021 'Genius' Grant Winners | website=The New York Times | date=September 28, 2021 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/arts/macarthur-foundation-announces-2021-genius-grant-winners.html | access-date=September 28, 2021}}</ref>
* 2021 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in Art History, awarded by the [[College Art Association]] for ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration''
* 2021 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in Art History, awarded by the [[College Art Association]] for ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration''
* 2021 Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism awarded by the College Art Association for ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration''
* 2021 Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism awarded by the College Art Association for ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration''
* 2020 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] (Criticism) for ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration''
* 2020 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] (Criticism) for ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration''
* 2019 Academic Writing Fellow, [[Rockefeller Foundation|The Rockefeller Foundation]], Bellagio Center, Italy
* 2019 Academic Writing Fellow, [[Rockefeller Foundation|The Rockefeller Foundation]], Bellagio Center, Italy
* 2016-2017 ACLS/NYPL Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library
* 2016-2017 ACLS/NYPL Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the [[New York Public Library]]
* 2016-2017 Whiting Public Engagement Fellow
* 2016-2017 Whiting Public Engagement Fellow
* 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the [[American Studies Association]]
* 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the [[American Studies Association]]
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* [https://www.npr.org/2020/10/28/925227833/marking-time-and-making-art-in-confinement ''Morning Edition'', NPR]
* [https://www.npr.org/2020/10/28/925227833/marking-time-and-making-art-in-confinement ''Morning Edition'', NPR]
* ''[https://www.wnyc.org/story/marking-time-art-age-mass-incarceration/ All of It with Alison Stewart]''
* ''[https://www.wnyc.org/story/marking-time-art-age-mass-incarceration/ All of It with Alison Stewart]''
* [https://www.artforum.com/print/202007/nicole-r-fleetwood-in-conversation-with-rachel-kushner-83681 Carceral Aesthetics], Conversation with novelist Rachel Kushner
* ''[https://www.artforum.com/print/202007/nicole-r-fleetwood-in-conversation-with-rachel-kushner-83681 Carceral Aesthetics]'', Conversation with novelist Rachel Kushner
* [https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/454 The Voices of Marking Time], MoMA Magazine Podcast
* ''[https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/454 The Voices of Marking Time]'', MoMA Magazine Podcast
* ''[[imdbtitle:3954418|Dreams Are Colder than Death]]''
* {{IMDb title|qid=Q123581642|title=Dreams Are Colder than Death|description=2014 documentary}}


==References==
==References==
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Nicole R. Fleetwood

Nicole R. Fleetwood (February 24, 1973) is an American academic, curator, police abolitionist, prison abolitionist, and author. She is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, Fleetwood was Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University.

Early life and education

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Fleetwood grew up and attended public schools in Hamilton, Ohio before briefly moving to Texas, then returning to graduate from Hamilton High School in 1990. She grew up in a large extended family of gospel, funk, and rock musicians. Her maternal relatives, the Troutmans, created the pioneering funk band Zapp. Fleetwood has spoken and written about the impact of music, policing, and imprisonment on her family and community.[1]

In 1992, Fleetwood was chosen for the Erasmus International Exchange program to study human rights law and feminist studies at Utrecht University. In 1994, Fleetwood received a bachelor of philosophy degree (B.Phil.) from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University of Ohio and her master's degree and doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1998 and 2001, respectively.[2]

Career

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Fleetwood's expertise is centered on contemporary black diasporic art and visual culture, gender and feminist studies, prison abolition, carceral studies and poverty studies.[3]

From 2001 to 2003, Fleetwood began as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Film and Drama at Vassar College. In 2003, she joined the faculty of the Department of American Studies at University of California, Davis. She moved to Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 2005. Serving from 2013 to 2016, Fleetwood became the first Black director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers.

In 2012, Fleetwood won the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association for her book, Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality and Blackness, published in 2011 with the University of Chicago Press. She published her second book, On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination, in 2015 and a portion of it was translated into Italian for A fior di pelle: Bianchezza, nerezza, visualità, a collection of chapters and essays on race and visuality.

Fleetwood has organized several programs on visual culture, poverty studies, and carceral studies. In 2014, Fleetwood co-organized with her colleague Sarah Tobias Marking Time: Prison Art and Activism, a conference and six-site exhibition at Rutgers University based on research that she had begun in 2010 on the visual culture of mass incarceration.[4] In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition, State Goods: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration, with Walter E. Puryear at the Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx.[5] In 2018, Fleetwood collaborated with Aperture Foundation on Prison Nation, an issue of Aperture magazine and a traveling exhibition of the same name, focusing on photography's role in documenting mass incarceration.

In 2020, Harvard University Press published Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Fleetwood's decade-long study of the visual art and culture of contemporary prisons in the United States. The book has been included in several 2020 "best books" and selected reading lists by major media and cultural outlets such as the New York Times, The National Book Foundation and the Smithsonian. It won the 2020 National Book Critics Award in Criticism and became the only publication to win both the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in art history and the Frank Jewett Mather Award in art criticism from the College Art Association. The exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (September 17, 2020 – April 5, 2021) was also curated by Fleetwood at MoMA PS1 based on the text. The exhibition was listed as "one of the most important art moments in 2020" by The New York Times,[6] and among the best shows of the year by The New Yorker[7] and Hyperallergic.[8]' Following the presentation at MoMA PS1, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration was exhibited at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (September 17, 2021 – December 11, 2021).[9]

In 2021, Fleetwood joined New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development as the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor.

Fleetwood has written art catalogue essays and cultural criticism on Angela Y. Davis,[10] John Edmonds,[11] Gordon Parks,[12] Deana Lawson,[13] Rihanna,[14] Mickalene Thomas,[15] Fatimah Tuggar,[16] Diana Ross, Serena Williams, and LeBron James.[17] Fleetwood's work has been covered by major media outlets including CNN, the Atlantic, National Public Radio, the New York Times, and The New Yorker.

Awards and honors

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Books

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Interviews

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References

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  1. ^ Dreams are colder than deaths. Dir. Arthur Jafa. 2013. Film.
  2. ^ "Nicole R. Fleetwood". amerstudies.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  3. ^ "Nicole R. Fleetwood". amerstudies.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  4. ^ Jacobs, Emma (2014-11-20). "Marking Time: Exhibit Shows Prison-Made Art". wnyc.org. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  5. ^ Smith, Roberta; Schwendener, Martha (2017-06-01). "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  6. ^ Cotter, Holland; Smith, Roberta; Farago, Jason (2020-12-04). "The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  7. ^ Scott, Andrea K. (30 December 2020). "The Best Art of 2020". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  8. ^ Cassell, Dessane Lopez (2020-12-30). "2020: A Year in New York Exhibitions and More". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  9. ^ Patel, Marionne. "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration - Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts | UAB". www.uab.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  10. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. (2019). "Deana Lawson's Mohawk Correctional Series". In Maciejunes, Nannette; Wolfe, M. Melissa (eds.). Reflections: The American Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art. Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art in Association with Ohio University Press. pp. 648–649.
  11. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. (30 August 2019). "The Quiet Risks of John Edmonds's Photographs | by Nicole R. Fleetwood". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  12. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. (2020). "Policing and the Production of Crime". In Meister, Sarah (ed.). The Atmosphere of Crime. Steidl and the Gordon Parks Foundation. pp. 74–77.
  13. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. (2019). "Deana Lawson's Mohawk Correctional Series". In Maciejunes, Nannette (ed.). Reflections: The American Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art. Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art in Association with Ohio University Press. pp. 648–649.
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