Ayanna Dozier

Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. Her research examines alternative histories of experimental film and expanded cinema by Black feminist media-makers. Select exhibitions institutions include BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), Microscope Gallery (New York, NY), Block Museum (Chicago, IL), MoCA, Arlington (Arlington, VA), Hauser & Wirth (Los Angeles, CA), PLATFORM Centre (Winnipeg, MB), and The Shed (New York, NY). She was a 2022 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Resident (Bronx, NY), a 2018-2019 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Studies Program, and a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow from 2017-2022 at Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY). Her film work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (2020) and is currently working on a manuscript on the life and work of abstract artist, Camille Billops. She received her PhD in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (Montréal, QC).