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Nicole R. Fleetwood

Nicole R. Fleetwood (February 24, 1973) is an American academic, curator, and author. She is a professor of American studies and art history at Rutgers University.[1]

Early Life and Education

Fleetwood grew up in Hamilton, Ohio and attended public schools there 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.[2]


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 from Stanford University in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature from 1998-2001.[3]

Career

Fleetwood expertise is centered on contemporary black diasporic art and visual culture, gender and feminist studies, prison abolition, carceral studies and poverty studies.[4]

From 2001 to 2003, Fleetwood began as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in 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 in 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 called 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.[5] In 2018, Fleetwood collaborated with Aperture Foundation on Prison Nation, an issue of Aperture magazine, focusing on photography’s role in documenting mass incarceration and a traveling exhibition of the same name.


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].


Fleetwood has written art catalogue essays and cultural criticism on Angela Y. Davis,[9] John Edmonds,[10]Gordon Parks,[11] Deana Lawson,[12] Rihanna,[13]Mickalene Thomas,[14] Fatimah Tuggar,[15] Diana Ross, Serena Williams, and LeBron James.[16] 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

  • 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
  • 2016-2017 ACLS/NYPL Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library
  • 2016-2017 Whiting Public Engagement Fellow
  • 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association
  • 2007-2008 National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow, Schomburg Scholar-in-Residence Program

Books

Interviews

References

  1. ^ "Nicole R. Fleetwood". amerstudies.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  2. ^ Dreams are colder than deaths. Dir. Arthur Jafa. 2013. Film.
  3. ^ "Nicole R. Fleetwood". amerstudies.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  4. ^ "Nicole R. Fleetwood". amerstudies.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  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. "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. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. "The Quiet Risks of John Edmonds's Photographs | by Nicole R. Fleetwood". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. "The Case of Rihanna: Erotic Violence and Black Female Desire". African American Review. 45.3: 419–435.
  14. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. (2018). "Mickalene Thomas's World Making". In Shafer, Ryan (ed.). Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts. pp. 57–61.
  15. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. (2019). "The Non-Linear Temporalities of Fatimah Tuggar's Media Art". Fatimah Tuggar: Home’s Horizons. Munich: Hirmer Publishers. pp. 50–59.
  16. ^ Fleetwood, Nicole R. (2015). On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination. Rutgers University Press.
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