Tiffany E. Barber

Tiffany E. Barber is a scholar, curator, and critic of twentieth and twenty-first century visual art, new media, and performance. Her work focuses on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. Her most recent curatorial project, Curating the End of the World (2020), focused on visions of Black futures at the edge of apocalypse. She is currently at work on an essay about abstract painter Alma Thomas and her acts of self-fashioning. Tiffany is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at University of Delaware. She has completed fellowships at ArtTable, the Delaware Art Museum, and the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. During the 2021-2022 academic year, Dr. Barber will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute.