Kellie Jones is a recipient of a 2016 MacArthur “genius” Grant and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She is the author of several books and exhibition catalogues, including South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s, Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art and 1970sEnergy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980; Basquiat; and (with Thelma Golden and Chrissie Iles) Lorna Simpson.