Rianna Jade Parker

Rianna Jade Parker is a British-born Jamaican writer, curator, and researcher based in South London. Her historical research and archival specialisms incompasses Black feminist thought, visual cultures, Black modernity and Caribbean studies. She has presented at the South London Gallery, Tate Britainٖ and Tate Modern, the Royal College of Art and the ICA London, among others. 

Her writing has been published in ARTnews, Frieze, Artforum, Aperture, Art in America, Artsy and BOMB, including critiques on Frank Bowling, Simone Leigh, Kara Walker and Steve McQueen. As an author, she has written catalogue essays for institutions and publishers including Phaidon Press, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Thames and Hudson, Camden Art Centre, Charleston House, and the Hayward Gallery. 

She is a Contributing Editor for Frieze magazine and a founding member of interdisciplinary art collective Thick/er Black Lines. Her first book, ‘A Brief History of Black British Art’ is forthcoming from Tate Publishing in 2021.