NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Tina M. Campt as the 2026–27 MoMA Scholar in Residence, made possible by the Alice L. Walton Foundation. MoMA Scholars in Residence are inspiring thinkers who offer fresh perspectives on the history of modern and contemporary art. This unique residency program, launched in 2022, supports the work of creative thought leaders with demonstrated records of achievement to pursue independent research projects with full access to MoMA’s collections, library, archives, and other research resources.

Campt joins the Museum from Princeton University, where she is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the department of art and archaeology and director of the Princeton Atelier at the Lewis Center for the Arts. She is a Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and lead convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics. Campt is the author of four monographs: A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (2021), Listening to Images (2017), Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012), and Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich (2004), and the coeditor of two art catalogues: Into the Unseen: The Walther Collection (2026) and Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (2024), the latter of which was selected as the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year Award by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation. Most recently, she is coeditor of the Practicing Refusal Collective’s Thinking from Black: A Lexicon (2026). Campt and a selection of the book’s editors will present excerpts of the book during a launch event held at MoMA PS1 on September 14, 2026. She received the 2024 Photographic Studies Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute for distinguished contributions to the study of anthropology and photography. Her latest monograph, Art in a Time of Sorrow, will be published in the fall of 2027.





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