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About

Phyllis Galembo is professor of art at the University of Albany State University of New York. Her photographs have been exhibited at institutions around the world including the American Museum of Natural History New York; Fashion Institute of Technology New York; George Eastman House Rochester New York; Kréyol Factory Paris; Museum für Völkerkunde Vienna; San Francisco Airport Museum; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture New York; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Washington D.C.; Tang Museum Saratoga Springs New York; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Her work has been collected by institutions including the Library of Congress Washington D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rockefeller Foundation New York; and Yale Center for British Art New Haven Connecticut. In 1994 Galembo received a Senior Fulbright Research Award to photograph Kings Chiefs and Women of Power: Images from Nigeria. She received a Hasselblad Masters Award in 2001 and an Artists Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2010. Galembos previous books include Divine Inspiration: From Benin to Bahia (1993) Vodou: Visions and Voices of Haiti (1998) and Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade (2002). Phyllis Galembo is professor of art at the University of Albany State University of New York. Her photographs have been exhibited at institutions around the world including the American Museum of Natural History New York; Fashion Institute of Technology New York; George Eastman House Rochester New York; Kréyol Factory Paris; Museum für Völkerkunde Vienna; San Francisco Airport Museum; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture New York; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Washington D.C.; Tang Museum Saratoga Springs New York; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Her work has been collected by institutions including the Library of Congress Washington D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rockefeller Foundation New York; and Yale Center for British Art New Haven Connecticut. In 1994 Galembo received a Senior Fulbright Research Award to photograph Kings Chiefs and Women of Power: Images from Nigeria. She received a Hasselblad Masters Award in 2001 and an Artists Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2010. Galembos previous books include Divine Inspiration: From Benin to Bahia (1993) Vodou: Visions and Voices of Haiti (1998) and Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade (2002). Chika Okeke-Agulu is associate professor of art history in the Department of Art and Archaeology a core faculty member at the Center for African American Studies and a member of the executive board of the Program in African Studies for Princeton University. He was the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor Williams College and is a fellow of the Clark Institute. He cocurated Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa (Whitechapel London 1995) The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 (Museum Villa Stuck Munich 2001) and Who Knows Tomorrow (Nationalgalerie Berlin 2010). His writings on African and African Diaspora art and artists have appeared in journals including South Atlantic Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism Race Transnationalism; Glendora Review; African Arts; and Art South Africa. He is coauthor (with Okwui Enwezor) of Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2009) coeditor of Who Knows Tomorrow (2010) and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Chika Okeke-Agulu is associate professor of art history in the Department of Art and Archaeology a core faculty member at the Center for African American Studies and a member of the executive board of the Program in African Studies for Princeton University. He was the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor Williams College and is a fellow of the Clark Institute. He cocurated Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa (Whitechapel London 1995) The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 (Museum Villa Stuck Munich 2001) and Who Knows Tomorrow (Nationalgalerie Berlin 2010). His writings on African and African Diaspora art and artists have appeared in journals including South Atlantic Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism Race Transnationalism; Glendora Review; African Arts; and Art South Africa. He is coauthor (with Okwui Enwezor) of Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2009) coeditor of Who Knows Tomorrow (2010) and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.