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.

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.