Romi Crawford

Romi Crawford, PhD, is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research examines American visual culture (including art, film, and photography). Crawford regularly writes on contemporary art and often advises on forward-thinking museum, civic, and art projects, including The Chicago Monuments Project Advisory Committee. Recent curatorial projects include So Be It! Asé: Photographic Echoes of FESTAC '77 (Richard Gray Gallery, NY, 2023); Citing Black Geographies (Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago/New York, 2022) and Radical Relations!: Memory, Objects and the Generation of the Political (The University of Chicago Center for Gender Studies). Crawford founded the Black Arts Movement School Modality in 2021 and the New Art School Modality in 2023. She received MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago.