Alisa LaGamma

Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1995 for a dissertation titled "The Art of the Punu Mukudj Masquerade: Portrait of an Equatorial Society", for which she carried out a year of fieldwork in southern Gabon.

In 2012 she received the Iris Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the Bard Graduate Center in recognition of her contribution to rethinking the history of sub-Saharan African art and culture.[2]

She curated the exhibition "Kongo: Power and Majesty".[3]

Selected publications
  • Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002. ISBN 9780300096873
  • Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007.
  • Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011.
  • "Silenced Mbembe Muses", Metropolitan Museum Journal, 48 (2013): 143–160.
  • Kongo: Power and Majesty. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015. ISBN 9781588395757

References
  1. Dan Duray (2013-01-09). "Met's Africa Department Head, Julie Jones, to Retire, Alisa LaGamma Named as Replacement". Observer. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  2. "Staff List | the Metropolitan Museum of Art". Archived from the original on 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  3. "Curatorial Chat | Alisa LaGamma on curating 'Kongo' and running the Met's Rockefeller Wing | Center for Curatorial Leadership". Curatorialleadership.org. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
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