Engagements
Erin Jenoa Gilbert has addressed audiences at the Yale Center for British Art, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Park Avenue Armory, Barbican Centre, ICA Miami, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Howard University’s James A Porter Colloquium, Fashion Institute of Technology, Swann Galleries and Yale University School of Management.
Oliver Jackson Lee, Dewey Crumpler and JoeSam. MoAD, San Francisco February 25, 2024.
Rachel Jones and Erin Jenoa Gilbert. Yale Center for British Art. London, United Kingdom. April 8, 2022.
Toyin Ojih Odutola and Erin Jenoa Gilbert "A Countervailing Theory" Hirschhorn Museum. March 10 2022.
Erin Jenoa Gilbert on Barbara Chase Riboud “Zanzibar” in Carrie Mae Weems “The Shape of Things” Park Avenue Armory. December 10, 2021.
Erin Jenoa Gilbert on "Chakaia Booker: Transcendence and Transfiguration” ICA Miami. September 15, 2021.
Figure and Force: Ilyasah Shabazz and Barbara Chase Riboud in conversation moderated by Erin Jenoa Gilbert. Saint Heron.
Toyin Ojih Odutola and Erin Jenoa Gilbert "A Countervailing Theory" Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom. October 9, 2020.
"Decolonizing the Archive: Black History, Imagery and Narrative" Hunter College Campus Schools, New York, New York. February 10, 2020.
"Collecting the Papers of Women Artists, Critics, and Dealers"
Mary Savig and Erin Gilbert, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, New York. November 19, 2019
Oral History with Barbara Chase-Riboud. Paris, France June 7-12, 2019.
“Blackness, Modernism, and the Future of the Archive: A Conversation.” Steven Nelson, Huey Copeland and Erin Gilbert, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Apr. 11, 2019.
"Digital Futures" Stephanie Cunningham and Erin Gilbert at Critical In/Sight: Contemporary Developments in the History and Practice of Black Visual Culture at the 30th Annual James A Porter Colloquium, Howard University, Washington D.C. April 5, 2019.
"The Business of Black Visual Culture" Halima Taha moderated by Erin Gilbert at Critical In/Sight: Contemporary Developments in the History and Practice of Black Visual Culture at the 30th Annual James A Porter Colloquium, Howard University, Washington D.C. April 5, 2019.
"Collecting African American Art" Nigel Freeman and Erin Gilbert, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, New York. March 26, 2019.
Essays
Erin Jenoa Gilbert has composed several articles, and essays for museum and gallery catalogs.
Marcus Garvey and the Marvelous Real Revolution: Tavares Strachan The Awakening, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, July 2023.
“Radical Simplification” Paul Waters In The Beginning Paintings from the 1960’s and 70’s, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, July 2022.
“Setting Colour In Motion” Robert Reed Galactic Journal Series, Pillar Corrias Gallery London, June 2022.
“Revolutionary Redactions.” Mary Lovelace O'Neal: Whales Fucking, Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), 2022.
“Transformation and Transcendence.” Chakaia Booker: The Observance, ICA Miami, 2021.
“Black Painting” Kerry James Marshall. ASAP Journal, July, 2020.
“Seeing Red: Rage, Romance and Resurrection.” Alma Thomas: Resurrection, Mnuchin Gallery, 2018
“The Limitations of Language.” Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi, Spelman Museum of Art, 2018.
Articles in The Archives of American Art Journal :
—“Senga Nengudi Papers,” Spring 2019
—“Renee Cox Papers,” Fall 2019
—“Charles White and Mel Williamson Papers,” Spring 2020
Archives
Emma Amos
Chakaia Booker
Beverly Buchanon
Nanette Carter
Ed Clark
Renee Cox
Allan Randall Freelon
Maren Hassinger
Oliver Jackson Lee
Senga Nengudi
Arthur Monroe
Betty Blayton Taylor
Ruth Jett
Joyce Scott
EJ Montgomery
Howardena Pindell
Lowery Stokes Sims
Sylvia Snowden
Charles White Letters to Melvin Williamson
All of these collections reside at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in Washington, DC.