Reframing Blackness: What’s Black about “History of Art”?

Alayo Akinkugbe graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in History of Art in 2021 and she is the founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt on Instagram, a platform which showcases emerging and overlooked Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and today. She has given talks at schools, universities and art institutions on topics that relate to the position of Blackness in Western art history, and she recently worked on the curatorial team of the groundbreaking exhibition In the Black Fantastic, at the Hayward Gallery. She was on the advisory panel and contributed to the book, African Artists: From 1882 to Now, published by Phaidon in 2021, and has also written for various arts publications including Tate Etc., AnOther Magazine and Art UK. Reframing Blackness is her first book.