05. About & Bio

Vera Ingrid Grant

is an independent curator, arts management consultant, and writer based in Ann Arbor, MI. Grant organizes art exhibitions, prepares art acquisition proposals and collection assessments, and manages museum teams, projects, and workshops . Her curatorial focus is on immersive concept driven exhibitions that present non-traditional narratives. Her startling juxtapositions of artworks across usually distinct disciplines and time periods, allows viewers to pose questions and to consider alternate historical dialogues around form and content. Grant views art museums as vibrant “third spaces” of visual culture and social interaction. She often places “living rooms” -complete with archival material and books- directly within the art exhibition gallery space. Grant’s work in the art gallery informs her ongoing research project: “Curating UnSettling Legacies.”

Grant served as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (2018-19) and was the founding director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University (2012-2018). Grant also served as the Executive Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard (2008-2012). Grant is a Fulbright scholar; and CCL fellow. From 2001 to 2007 Grant served as Associate Director of the program in African and African American Studies at Stanford University (2001-2007). Grant has an MA in Modern European History from Stanford University, and a BA in History at City College, CUNY, in New York City.

Vera Grant

Curator. Writer. Arts Consultant.  2025              

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