Chasitie Brown is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History and Center for Latin American Visual Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art with a focus on Cuba. She is currently writing her dissertation titled “The Dormant Scar: Embodying Blackness in the Queloides Exhibition Series in Cuba, the United States, and Spain.” Her project examines a group of three exhibitions that were the first to address questions of racial discrimination and prejudice in contemporary Cuban society: Queloides (1997-2012). Staged in diverse venues in Cuba and the United States, with related shows in Spain, she argues that the Queloides project served as a transnational network between the show’s participants (artists, curators, and intellectuals) to articulate readings of Blackness from a historical and affective perspective.
Her research has received support from the Harrington Society, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Goizueta Foundation at the Cuban Heritage Collection, and the Tinker Foundation.