Sinclair Spratley

Sinclair Spratley is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History and Archeology . She received her BA in Art History from Fordham University and an MA in Art History from the Williams College/Clark Art Institute Graduate Program. She focuses on Modernist and Contemporary artists of the African Diaspora, as well as the visual and popular culture of American Black empowerment, activism, and collectivism in the 1960s and 1970s. Her research interests reside in the places where aesthetics, politics, formalism, and discourses on freedom intersect.

Prior to joining the PhD program at Columbia, Sinclair served as a curatorial intern at the Williams College Museum of Art and as a Catalogue Raisonné research intern for the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has also served as the curriculum developer and instructor for the Prep for Prep/Sotheby’s Summer Art Academy, an arts enrichment program for high school students of color from New York. Her writing on contemporary art can be found in various publications including Art in America, ArtReview, and Hyperallergic.