LeRonn Brooks

Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks is the Associate Curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Dr. Brooks is a specialist in African American art, poetics, performance, and Africana Studies. His interviews, essays on African American art, and poems have been featured in Bomb Magazine, Callaloo Journal, and The International Review of African American Art. His works have also been published by the Aperture Foundation and in many exhibition calalogues: Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the Collections of Jordan D.Schnitzer and His Family Foundation (2018), Hallie Ford Museum of Art; Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise (2018), the Mississippi Museum of Art; NARI WARD: G.O.A.T., AGAIN (2017), Socrates Sculpture Park; and Black Romantic: The Figurative in Contemporary African-American Art (2002), the Studio Museum in Harlem. He holds a PhD in Art History from City University of New York and a BFA from Hunter College.