crystal am nelson is an assistant professor of art history whose research and teaching focus on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. Her other interests include identity and representation, critical pleasure studies, and contemporary Black life. Her current project examines the visual culture of Black pleasure and the aesthetics of Black joy and safe space in the visual representations of quotidian Blackness as depicted by the painters labeled as the Black romantic. Professor nelson鈥檚 writing has appeared in聽The Art Bulletin,聽Art Journal,聽Feminist Media Histories, Contact Sheet, Brooklyn Rail,聽caa.reviews,聽among other places. She has a forthcoming article being published in聽Woman鈥檚 Art Journal. Alongside her research and teaching, Professor nelson has organized and co-organized several exhibitions including聽Heterotopia, Dark Desires,听补苍诲听Pictures and Progress: The Black Panther, 1966-2016聽(with Drs. Cathy T. Thomas and Kiran Garcha).
