Marsha Pearce

Marsha Pearce, Guest Editor, CRGS Special Issue 16, is a faculty member at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. She holds a BA in visual arts and a PhD in cultural studies. She is a recipient of a 2024 Global Professorship from the British Academy to support her research project titled “Trembling Abode: Reimagining the Museum as Home for Global Majority Artists.” Dr. Pearce is undertaking this research, over the span of four years, in collaboration with The Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge. Her research and critical writings about visual culture have been published in several art catalogues as well as peer-reviewed academic journals and books. Her edited book Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean (2023) pairs paintings with short stories to explore sensations of place and identity. She has served on the board of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), and as a consultant for the Draft National Policy on Culture and the Arts of T&T. Dr. Pearce’s work also takes the form of curating art exhibitions. Her curatorial projects include a collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London and the British Council for the Americas IN Britain—Caribbean Edition curated online exhibition, and her work with the Pérez Art Museum Miami to co-curate the group show The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art. During the pandemic, she led a Caribbean artist conversation series titled Quarantine and Art.