Guyanese-born Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and the Department of Art History’s Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies Program at the College of Fine Arts, Florida State University (FSU). She is also affiliated faculty with the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Center. She is a 2024-25 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at The Huntington in Los Angeles. Ali is Editor-in-Chief of the College Art Associations’ Art Journal Open and member of the international Board of Advisors for British Art Studies.
As a curator-scholar of contemporary art of the Global South, her curatorial research practice examines the conceptual links and slippages at the nexus of art and migration. Ali also specializes on art of the Caribbean Diaspora with particular attention to her homeland Guyana. Her teaching focuses on courses on curatorial practice, curatorial activism, art and migration, arts activism, art and social change, global contemporary art, and art of the Caribbean Diaspora.