Bio

Jocelyn Holmes is an artist, educator, gallery director, and scholar who investigates art’s potential to actively reconfigure the entanglements of time, space, and matter. She holds a PhD from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, a Master’s degree in Painting with a minor in Printmaking from Stephen F. Austin, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her doctoral research, situated at the intersection of philosophy, art theory, and aesthetics, examines the philosophical concepts emerging from contemporary art practices that elucidate the entanglement of ethics and aesthetics while challenging problematic socio-political power constructions.

Dr. Holmes participates in a variety of national and international academic lectures, conferences, panel discussions, residencies, and art exhibitions. She continues to publish and present her scholarly writing at conferences, including CAA, FATE, and SECAC. Publications include “Addressing Erasure through the Critical Fabulation of Kara Walker’s Katastwóf Karavan,” in Reading Southern Art (University of Arkansas Press, forthcoming).