Ayanna Dozier

Education

2020 Ph.D. Art History & Communication Studies, Graduate Option in Gender & Women Studies Dissertation: Mnemonic Aberrations: Black Feminisms and the Counter-Poetics of Rhythm in Experimental Short films (1968-1998) McGill University, Montréal, QC

2014 M.A. Media Culture & Communication New York University, New York, NY

2012 B.A. Art History & French Literature & Film Chapman University, Orange, CA


Fellowships/Residencies

2022
Field Residency at Field Projects
Winter Workspace Arts Residency, Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY

2017-2022
Joan Tisch Teaching Fellowship, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2019-2020
Filmmaker in Residence, MONO NO AWARE, New York, NY

2018-2019
Helena Rubinstein Fellow, Critical Studies Program Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY


Solo Exhibitions

2023
“This Country Makes it Hard to Fuck,” Microscope Gallery, New York

2019
“Softest” performance of Spoken Softly and Soft Waves installation, Evening Hours Gallery, New York, NY


Group Exhibitions

2023
“American Gurl,” Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
“The Crisis of Images at Arlington Museum,” Washington, D.C.
“When I Am Empty Please Dispose of Me Properly,” BRIC, Brooklyn, NY

2022
“A room full of mirrors,” Fragment, New York
“Subtle Subversions,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY
“Flesh to Spirit: Materiality and Abstraction in Black Experimental film,” The Block Museum, Chicago, IL

2021
“Wide Awakes: In Process,” Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY “Open Call,” The Shed, New York, NY

2019
“Westside Exposure,” Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY

2018
“Two Readings,” Evening Hours Gallery, New York, NY

2014
“Adrian Piper’s The Probable Trust Registry,” Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Awards/Grants

2020
Toni Beauchamp Award for Best Critical Art Writing The Shed, NYC: OPEN CALL COÉRISC Graduate Student Research Grant Critical Minded Grant

2017
Margaret Gillet Graduate Research Award, McGill University
Media@McGill Graduate Research Fellowship Award, McGill University
The Camille Billops & James V. Hatch Fellowship Award: Rose Library, Emory University

2016
Media@McGill Graduate Research Fellowship Award, McGill University

2012
Chapman University Creative Research Grant
John & Margaret Class Book Collection Contest, 1st Prize, Chapman University

2008
Idllywild Arts Academy


Selected Publications

2021
What Remains: Exit 15x at Snake Hill Dense Magazine issue 1
Conjuring Caliban’s Woman: Moving Beyond Cinema’s Memory of Man in Praise House (1991)
Hypatia, Special Issue: Conjure Feminism, guest edited by Kinitra Brooks, Kameelah Martin, and LaKisha Simmons

2020
Janet’s Jackson’s The Velvet Rope 33 1/3 Series, Bloomsbury Academic
Rebellious Inventions by Reinvented Lives: Abstraction in the Black Diaspora FALSE FLAG Gallery Press
Pathé-Ways in Time, Bodies, and Aesthetics: Onyeka Igwe’s Specialized Technique Article for Non-Fiction 1, no. 2

2018
Wayward Travels: Racial Uplift, Black Women, & the Pursuit of Love & Travel in Torchy in Heartbeats Feminist Media Histories: (Special issue) Comics, edited by Kathleen McClancy
Fucking Whiteness: Orientations, Desire, and Race in Camille Billops’ Docu-Fantasy The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks (1991)
Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal Issue 02

2017
No Happy Returns: Aesthetics, Labor, and Affect in Julie Dash’s Experimental Short Film, Four Women Feminist Media Studies: (Special Issue) Affective Encounters, 1-14
Black Women and the Edit of Shame: Alile Sharon Larkin’s The Kitchen cléo vol. 5 no. 2: SHORTS

2015
Affect and the ‘Fluidity’ of the Black Gendered Body in Water Ritual #1 and Cycles Liquid Blackness vol. 2 no. 5