Allison K. Young, Ph.D. is an art historian, writer, and curator based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is currently Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at Louisiana State University and A&M School of Art in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU in 2017.
Allison has curated exhibitions across the U.S. both independently and with institutions, and has published writing about contemporary art in both academic and critical platforms including African Arts, Art Journal, Art Review, Artforum, Apollo International, Africanah.org, ART AFRICA Magazine, British Art Studies, Burnaway, liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies, the International Review of African American Art, Panorama: Journal of the Society of Historians of American Art, and the Photoworks Annual in addition to numerous international exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and edited volumes.
Allison’s scholarship has received the support of grants, fellowships, and awards from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society (LSU Chapter), and the Louisiana Board of Regents.
She has been a Contributing Editor of Global Modern and Contemporary Art for Smarthistory since 2015 and is currently Vice President of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians.
photo by bruce powers, new orleans, 2024