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May 1, 2025 | Distinguished Jubilee Award for Queen’s College Grace Aneiza Ali named a recipient of the Distinguished Jubilee Award by the Queen’s College of Guyana Alumni Association (New York Chapter). In celebration of the 50th anniversary of co-education at Queen’s College—her alma mater in Guyana—the award honors eight distinguished alumnae for their excellence, leadership, and service. Ali will be recognized at the Anniversary Gala on May 17, 2025, at Terrace-on-the-Park in New York.
April 2, 2025 | Rabkin Foundation Travel Grant for Arts Writing Grace Aneiza Ali receives support for her arts scholarship from The Rabkin Foundation, dedicated to inspiring the next generation of arts writers to uncover more viable futures for the field.
March 14, 2025 | Upcoming Exhibition: Amazonia Americas Society will present Amazonia, opening September 3, 2025, in New York. Grace Aneiza Ali serves as one of the curators for this exhibition celebrating the diverse cultures, histories, and Indigenous knowledge systems of the Amazon region across nine countries.
February 15, 2025 | Keynote Speaker, RAW Conference Grace Aneiza Ali is the Keynote Speaker for the 16th Annual Research, Art, and Writing (RAW) Graduate Student Conference, to be held on March 1, 2025, at the University of Texas at Dallas. Themed “Bait, Prompt, and Aid,” the conference will foster interdisciplinary dialogue on cultural identity, migration, colonial legacies, and heritage preservation across art, humanities, technology, literature, film, and history.
January 18, 2024 | Donald Locke: Nexus selected as Creative Loafing’s Critic’s Pick Donald Locke: Nexus at Atlanta Contemporary, curated by Grace Aneiza Ali, selected as a Critic’s Pick by Creative Loafing Atlanta. The exhibition, which runs through February 2, delves into Locke's transnational practice. The recognition by Creative Loafing underscores the exhibition's impact in celebrating Locke's legacy and influence.
November 4, 2024 | Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Library Fellowship Grace Aneiza Ali awarded the 2024 Donald C. Locke Research Fellowship by Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Library. This fellowship supports her curatorial research for Donald Locke: Nexus, an exhibition at Atlanta Contemporary running from October 24, 2024, to February 2, 2025. Drawing from the Donald Locke Papers held at the Library, Ali explores the artist's pivotal years in Atlanta during the 1990s.
September 20, 2024 | Art Omi Curator/Critic-in-Residence Grace Aneiza Ali selected as a 2025 Curator/Critic-in-Residence at Art Omi, a prestigious international residency program in upstate New York. As part of the 2025 cohort, she will join a global community of curators, critics, and cultural practitioners for a dedicated period of research, dialogue, and creative exchange.
July 1, 2024 | Curator for Engine for Art, Democracy, and Justice at Vanderbilt University Grace Aneiza Ali appointed the 2024–25 Curator for Vanderbilt University’s Engine for Art, Democracy, and Justice (EADJ). In this role, she is organizing Somewhere We Are Human, a year-long series of exhibitions and public programs that explore Nashville and the American South through the lens of migration, highlighting how immigrant communities have shaped the region’s history and envision its future through art and activism.
May 1, 2024 | 2024–25 Huntington Fellowship Grace Aneiza Ali awarded a 2024–25 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at The Huntington Library and Museum in Pasadena, California. As a Fellow, she will conduct research on migration and the Caribbean diaspora. The Huntington’s competitive fellowships support scholars engaged in innovative humanities research across its renowned collections.
April 24, 2024 | FSU Provost Award for Inclusive Teaching and Mentoring Grace Aneiza Ali receives the 2024 Inclusive Teaching and Mentoring Award in recognition of her commitment to fostering an inclusive and supportive learning environment that empowers students from diverse backgrounds. Ali’s teaching and mentorship is recognized for its emphasis on equity, representation, and community engagement, reflecting her dedication to inclusive pedagogy.
March 25, 2024 | FSU MFA Alumnae at Pen + Brush Gallery in New York As part of Pen + Brush Gallery’s 2024 Women’s History Month exhibition in New York City, Grace Aneiza Ali curated work by six of her former students — the 2023 MFA alumnae cohort from Florida State University. Ali’s curation highlights their artistic growth and the spirit of community they cultivated during their studies. The exhibition, Hit Me with Your Best Shot, champions the transformative role of women and non-binary artists in shaping contemporary art.
October 1, 2023 | British Art Studies appoints Grace Aneiza Ali to its international Board of Advisors. British Art Studies is an innovative space for new scholarship on British art, architecture, and visual culture in diverse and international contexts. It is co-published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and reflects their dynamic research cultures.
September 14, 2023 | The College Art Association’s Art Journal Open, appoints Grace Aneiza Ali as Editor-in-Chief. She will also serve on the Editorial Board for Art Journal and Art Journal Open.
July 29, 2023 | Grace Aneiza Ali serves as Juror for 2024 NCECA Emerging Artist Fellowships, which seeks to identify under-recognized artists doing extraordinary work in ceramic art and highlight them to an international audience.
June 22, 2023 | Grace Aneiza Ali joins Burnaway’s 2023 Art Writing Incubator (AWrI) Lecture Series, Critical Movement(s), which examines the ways in which art writing casts a critical eye on movement— from the body in motion, to migration or translation.
February 1, 2023 | In her Winter Newsletter, Grace Aneiza Ali shares updates on recent work, including essays on Caribbean artists and writers, a new exhibition, and several projects on Art and Migration in her curatorial research practice.
January 19, 2023 | FSU Museum of Fine Arts announces three thought-provoking exhibits for Spring 2023 semester touching on themes of identity, migration and media consumption, which includes Are We Free to Move About the World: The Passport in Contemporary Art, curated by Grace Aneiza Ali.
November 7, 2022 | DVCAI and The Hambidge Center selects Grace Aneiza Ali as part of its From The Outside-In Curator Cohort—a gathering of ten international curatorial fellows convened around thinking through news of curatorship of global art histories. The curators will be in residence from November 7 – 12, 2022, at Hambidge Center for the Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, U.S.A.
October 1, 2022 | October 1 marks the 2-Year Anniversary of Grace Aneiza Ali’s edited volume, Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora. Since launched, the book has received a wonderful and meaningful reception from readers, critics, scholars, artists, teachers, students globally and more importantly, the Guyanese community throughout the diaspora who share how the book reflects their lives and experiences of migration. Highlights of some of the book’s impact can be found here.
June 13, 2022 | British Art Network (BAN), convened by Tate and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, selects Grace Aneiza Ali for its 2022 Curatorial Forum to be held at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) to explore the histories, present experience and future of British art curating.
April 11, 2022 | Art at a Time Like This, a platform for artists and curators in the 21st century who confront and address crises, appoints Grace Aneiza Ali to its Board of Advisors.
March 21, 2022 | CCCADI launches The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers, Migrations, and the Question of Race. Curator-at-Large Grace Aneiza Ali commissioned the exhibition as part of CCCADI’s mission to provide platforms for curators of color committed to the Afro-Caribbean and its Diaspora. The exhibition is accompanied by an Education Guide.
March 11, 2022 | The Association of Art Museum Curators selects Grace Aneiza Ali for its 2022 Professional Alliance for Curators of Color (PACC) Fellowship.
January 15, 2022 | ArtConnect invites Grace Aneiza Ali as a guest curator for Artists to Watch ‘22.
January 1, 2022 | ARTNews names Grace Aneiza Ali and her work as Curator-at-Large at CCCADI in its 2022 ‘The Deciders’ List recognizing individuals and institutions contributing to the cultural conversation in a pointed way—and moving that conversation forward.
December 1, 2021 | MoMA adds Grace Aneiza Ali’s lecture on the ‘Veil as Saboteur’ to its Fashion as Design course where it examines modesty and our bodies as battlegrounds for shifting societal claims around morality and agency.
November 28, 2021 | Grace Aneiza Ali speaks with AM New York for their article ‘New York City’s status as a melting pot is most on display within its Caribbean neighborhoods,’ shining a light on the joys and challenges facing the Guyanese community in NYC. The article is accompanied by a podcast that takes a deep dive into the community.
November 20, 2021 | Grace Aneiza Ali’s co-taught class The Museum Object launches ‘The Shape of Care,’ a student-curated exhibition exploring how acts of care shape our lives and the world around us.
September 1, 2021 | The Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies launches its inaugural issue, which centers the study of indentureship and its critical importance to world history. Grace Aneiza Ali serves on the peer reviewed publication’s Academic Advisory Board.
June 21, 2021 | CCCADI Launches Afro-Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellowship dedicated to curators of color committed the Caribbean and its Diaspora. The Curatorial Fellowship and its Summer Seminar are directed by Curator-at-Large, Grace Aneiza Ali.
Spring, 2021 | NYC Department of Cultural Affairs NYC Curator Collections: Leading cultural voices and curators select two exhibitions curated by Grace Aneiza Ali at CCCADI—“Race, Myth, Art and Justice” and “Liminal Space”—as projects that “showcase the best the five boroughs have to offer online.”
April 30, 2021 | 100 Years | 100 Women lists Race, Myth, Art, and Justice, curated by Grace Aneiza Ali as part of its Power in Protest/Artist as Activist resources for “celebrating a community of voices who illuminate how conscious truth-telling art continues to serve as a powerful tool for justice.”
April 26, 2021 | National Press Photographers Association presents the 2021 Best of Photojournalism—a celebration of visual journalists who bore witness to a world rocked by a pandemic. Grace Aneiza Ali served on the jury for the Still Photojournalism Award.
February 13, 2021 | The New York Times selects the “Curators in Conversation” public program series hosted by Grace Aneiza Ali at CCCADI, for At Home—its editors’ curated list on how to live a full and cultured life during the pandemic, at home.
February 10, 2021 | Foundwork invites Grace Aneiza Ali as a Guest Curator.
January 1, 2021 | 'No Ocean Between Us' Exhibition Features Modern and Contemporary Art by Latin American and Caribbean Artists of Asian Descent. Curator Grace Aneiza Ali was proud to serve as an advisor for the project and support the inclusion of Guyana-born artists Bernadette Persaud and Suchitra Mattai.