Raél Jero Salley provides a global visual experience.

Salley is Professor of History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture (Maryland Institute College of Art), Inaugural Creative Director of The Space for Creative Black Imagination, Inc., Producer of Making Art History Now (Yale University & La Biennale di Venezia), Curator of Looking Rights (Johns Hopkins University, Mellon Foundation), Affiliate at the Getty Research Institute (AAAHI). Salley’s Faculty appointments include the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Columbia College Chicago, The University of Chicago, the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), and Honorary Research Faculty in Philosophy at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

In other moments, Raél (rah-EL) makes painted pictures, teaches martial arts, leads yoga sessions, feeds a dog called Biko, waters plants of all colours, and is Mazie’s grandson.

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