Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. She will be joining the Communication Department this year as an assistant professor. Her research work examines alternative histories of experimental film and expanded cinema by Black feminist media-makers. Professor Dozier has exhibited her films and given talks at 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).
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. Professor Dozier received her PhD in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.