Leslie Wilson

Session 2 (first week): Monday, May 24 - Sunday, May 30

Leslie Wilson’s research focuses on the global history of photography, modern and contemporary arts of Africa and the African diaspora, modern and contemporary American art, and museum and curatorial studies. She is an Assistant Professor of Art History at SUNY Purchase, where her current book project charts the development and popularization of color photography in South Africa. She has recently written for publications including Foam, on Luther Konadu, and Manual, on Aïda Muluneh, and she interviewed Larry W. Cook for Weiss Berlin. From 2019 to 2021, she was a Curatorial Fellow at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, and from 2015 to 2017, she held a predoctoral fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago and a BA in International Relations from Wellesley College.