James Little - (Hardcover)

About the Author

James Little holds a BFA from the Memphis Academy of Art and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is a 2009 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting. In addition to being featured prominently in the 2022 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, his work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including at MoMA P.S.1, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. In 2022, Little participated in a historic collaboration for Duke Ellington's conceptual Sacred Concerts series at the Lincoln Center, New York, with the New York Choral Society at the New School for Social Research and the Schomburg Center in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Petzel, New York (2024); Kavi Gupta, Chicago (2022); Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis (2022); Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood (2020); and June Kelly Gallery, New York (2018).

His paintings are represented in the collections of numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York; The Menil Collection, Houston; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Maatschappij Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; and the Newark Museum, Newark.

Valerie Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. For over two decades, she has devoted her practice to celebrating emerging and under-recognized artists. Among the significant survey and retrospective exhibitions she has organized are Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein (2009); Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of Fluxus (2010); Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones (2014); Jennie C. Jones: Compilation (2015); Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen (with Naomi Beckwith, 2017); and Dawoud Bey: Elegy (2023). Her thematic exhibitions have also been groundbreaking and include Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 (2005); Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2012); Black in the Abstract Parts 1 & 2 (2013); and, more recently, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse (2021). Cassel Oliver's writings have appeared in numerous publications. She is the recipient of the 2022 Bard College Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence; the Alain Locke International Scholar Award, Detroit Institute of Art (2022); James A. Porter Book Award, Howard University (2018), and the David C. Driskell Award, High Museum (2011), among many others.

Carrie Cooperider is an artist and writer based in New York whose essays and texts have appeared in Artishock, Los Angeles Review of Books, Cabinet Magazine, and 3: AM Magazine, among other publications. Cooperider has taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY; lectured at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and was the editor for the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. She holds an MFA in painting from Queens College, NY, and an MFA in writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and was a participant in the Whitney Independent Studio Program.

Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and diasporic aesthetics. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns, The New York Times, and in numerous artist's monographs and exhibition catalogues. Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. Recent editorial projects include Linda Nochlin's Making It Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now (2022) and Lorraine O'Grady's Writing in Space, 1973-2019 (2020). She co-curated the retrospective Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And at the Brooklyn Museum in 2021. She is the recipient of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for art journalism and a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She was appointed the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art in 2022 and the 2022-23 William Wilson Corcoran Professor of Community Engagement at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, George Washington University. Her most recent book, Imperfect Solidarities, was published in 2024.

Gavin Delahunty is a curator and writer based in Dallas, Texas. Over the past twenty years he has curated over forty exhibitions of modern and conemporary art and published numerous articles, essays, and books.