Kimberly Cleveland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design- Education
Ph.D. African Art History, University of Iowa, 2007
M.A. Modern Latin American Art History, University of New Mexico, 2002
- Specializations
Contemporary African Art
Afro-Brazilian Art
African Art
- Biography
Dr. Kimberly Cleveland joined the Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University in 2008. She is interested in exploring questions of race, ethnicity, and identity in relation to artistic production in both her classes and research. She is the author of Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity (2013), Black Women Slaves Who Nourished a Nation: Artistic Renderings of Wet Nurses in Brazil (2019), and Africanfuturism: African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds (2024). She has written exhibition catalog essays and book chapters, and her articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, Luso-Brazilian Review, Journal of Black Studies and ESCLAVAGES & POST-ESCLAVAGES/ SLAVERIES & POST SLAVERIES.