Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

African Diaspora Art

Department of Art & Art History

Curriculum Vitae

eddiechambers@austin.utexas.edu

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Assistant Professor Eddie Chambers joined the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010, teaching African Diaspora art history. His education includes a Fine Art (Honours) degree from Sunderland Polytechnic (1983) and in 1998 a Ph.D. in History of Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London, awarded for his thesis ‘Black Visual Arts Activity in England Between 1981 – 1986: Press and Public Responses’.

Since the early 1980s he has been involved in organizing and curating a number of artists' exhibitions. In addition to his exhibition work, he has written a number of articles and catalog essays about artists in the United Kingdom and other countries, including Australia, Jamaica and the US. The articles and other texts have been published in magazines and journals such as Third Text (London) and Art Papers (Atlanta). He was for nearly two decades a regular contributor to Art Monthly (London). A collection of his articles and essays, titled ‘Run Through the Jungle’ was published by the Institute of International Visual Arts (London) as part of its ‘Annotations’ series in 1999.

His more recent exhibitions have included ‘Pat Ward Williams: Isolated Incidents’ (Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, 2005), ‘Curator's Eye II Identity & History: Personal and Social Narratives in Art in Jamaica’ (National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, 2005/2006) and ‘Being Lady Lucy: Drawings and Sketchbooks 2004-2006’ (Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University, 2007)

Between 2003 and 2009 he was a Visiting Professor, Art History, at Emory University, Atlanta.