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Gina Athena Ulysse | |
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 Biennale of Sydney, 2020]] | |
| Born | 1966 Pétion-Ville, Haiti |
| Nationality | Haitian-American |
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| Alma mater | University of Michigan (MA, PhD), Upsala College (BA) |
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| Institutions | University of California,Santa Cruz (UCSC);Wesleyan University |
| Notable works | Because When God Is Too Busy,A Call to Rasanblaj |
| Website | ginaathenaulysse.com |
Gina Athena Ulysse (born 1966) is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar and writer whose body of work focuses on the visceral in the structural. Committed to ethnography,she uses a rasanblaj approach (gathering of ideas,things,people,and spirits) to her research questions,which are rooted in traditions of Black feminism to engage geopolitics,historical representations,aesthetics,and the spiritual in the dailiness of Black diasporic conditions. Her art and writing practice entail ongoing crossings and dialogues between the arts,humanities,and social sciences. She was a MacDowell fellow in 2025 and Bogliasco fellow in 2024.
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Currently,she is Professor of Humanities at the University of California,Santa Cruz Brown University. She is the Founding Director of the RasanblaLab.
She is the first artist-in-residence of the American Ethnological Association. She is the editor of the Rasanblaj section of ANTHRONOW published by Taylor and Francis. Her articles,essays,poetry,and visual art have been featured in Feminist Studies,Journal of Haitian Studies,Kerb:Journal of Landscape Architecture,Transition,and Third Text to name a few. Ulysse was an invited artist to the Biennale of Sydney (2020) and Biennale of Dakar (2024).
