Research Interests
- Contemporary Cuban art
- Exhibition histories
- Art Criticism
- Affect/phenomenology
- Afterlives/hauntings of slavery
Education
BA, English Literature and Art History, Southern Methodist University
MA, Art History, Tulane University
Bio
Chasitie Brown is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History and Center for Latin American Visual Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies modern and contemporary Cuban art, focusing on race, gender, and diaspora. Other research interests include exhibition histories and histories of Latin American migration in Spain, particularly that of the Canary Islands, through a lens of race.
Her dissertation examines the three-part exhibition series Queloides (1997–2012) that focused on questions of racial identity in post-soviet Cuba. Staged in Cuba and the United States with affiliate shows in Spain, she argues that the series served as a transnational network between the series participants (artists, curators, and art critics) to articulate new imaginings of Blackness that privileged the sociological and affective embodiments of race. She has collaborated closely with curators and art critics in noted institutions in Havana such as the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales and Fototeca de Cuba in her field and archival research.
Chasitie is the 2024–2025 Donald D. Harrington Dissertation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research has received support from the 2023–2024 Twelve-Month Ittleson Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Goizueta Graduate Research Fellowship at the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami, and the Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant among others.