Kellie Jones

Author of Lorna Simpson

About the Author

Kellie Jones, a 2016 recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant," is Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia University and the author of several books, including EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, also published by Duke University Press, Jones has curated numerous national and show more international exhibitions, including Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 and Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. show less

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Works by Kellie Jones

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Lorna Simpson (2002) 43 copies

South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017) 43 copies

EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (2011) 36 copies

Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (2011) 36 copies

Interrogating Identity (1991) 8 copies

O Sétimo Unicórnio (2006) 6 copies

David Hammons (October Files) (2025) 5 copies

Hughie Lee-Smith (2023) 5 copies

Love and Friendship (Jane Austen Children's Stories) (2021) — Adapter — 5 copies

Martin Puryear (1989) 3 copies

Whitfield Lovell: Deep River (2023) 2 copies

Lorna Simpson : September 8-October 14, 1989 2 copies

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love (2025) 2 copies, 1 review

Dawoud Bey 1 copy

Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980 1 copy

Arabian Nights: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (Easy Classics): 2 (The Arabian Nights Children's Collection (Easy Classics)) (2023) 1 copy

Arabian Nights: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (Easy Classics) (Arabian Nights: Easy Classics Book 1) 1 copy

Prince Camar and Princess Badoura (Easy Classics: The Arabian Nights) 1 copy

Miłość i przyjaźń (2021) 1 copy

Destiny is a rose: art from the eileen harris norton collection 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Writer's Room: Conversations About Writing (2016) — Narrator, some editions — 35 copies, 1 review

Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995 (1995) — Contributor — 29 copies

Jack Whitten: Odyssey: Sculpture 1963–2017 (2018) — Contributor — 28 copies

Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022) — Contributor — 24 copies

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Gender: female
Relationships: Baraka, Amiri (father)
Jones, Hettie (mother)

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Aberjhani 69 reviews

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love by Kellie Jones

Art books done as superbly, and as appropriately, as SUZANNE JACKSON WHAT IS LOVE, are rare these days. Jackson's amazing story is as captivating as her extraordinary art, and the passion with which she has pursued it for more than half a century. WHAT IS LOVE both documents and celebrates the life and career of a genuine survivor and triumphant visionary.

Aug 19, 2025