Arturo Lindsay

I am an artist/scholar/educator and native of Colon, Panama. My art and scholarly practices are informed by the ethnographic research I conduct in the African Diaspora. My research interest is the presence of African spiritual and aesthetic retentions, rediscoveries and reinventions in America grounded in the concept of transculturation. My findings are manifested in works of art, scholarly essays and lectures. At age 12 my family migrated to the United States and we settled in Brooklyn, NY.
I began my art career in the theater, acting and directing in avant-garde street productions in New York City and New England. In graduate school I met my mentor, the anthropologist Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, President Emeritus of Spelman College and Director Emeritus of the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Cole encouraged me to think about the contemporary art of the African Diaspora from the point of view of an ethnographer. While pursuing a doctorate degree in contemporary art theory and practice at NYU, I became interested in the aesthetics of Santeria.
I have exhibited in over 30 solo and 80 group exhibitions. I have also produced more than 40 art projects in national and international museums, galleries and outdoor v...

Dr. Arturo Lindsay is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Spelman College in Atlanta. He holds a Doctor of Arts (D.A.) degree focusing on contemporary art theory and practice from New York University (1990). His dissertation title is "Performance Art Ritual as Postmodern Thought, an Aesthetic Investigation." Lindsay also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1975) and a Bachelor of Arts
degree (BA) in Theater and Spanish from Central Connecticut State College (1970.)
He was the 2006 Distinguished Batza Family Chair at Colgate University and in 2005 he was named the Kemp Distinguished Visiting Professor at Davidson College in Davidson, NC. In 1999 Lindsay served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of
Panama.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 • South Fulton Arts Center, The Fire This Time South Fulton, GA
2019 • Mason Fine Art, Painted Poems: conversations with Ntozake Atlanta, GA
2017 • Southwest Arts Center, Arturo Lindsay: Smoke Voices … Voces de humo Atlanta, GA
2016 • Hammonds House Museum, Arturo Lindsay: celebrating a life in art Atlanta, GA
• Arturo Lindsay: Portraits of Yemaya Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, (2016) Richmond, VA
Second Street Gallery, Arturo Lindsay: Portraits of Yemaya (2014) Charlottesville, VA
Chastain Art Center, Arturo Lindsay: Portraits of Yemaya (2013) Atlanta, GA
2008 • Chase Gallery, Bates College, Arturo Lindsay: Love Lewiston, ME
2007 • Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA)
Arturo Lindsay: Love Brooklyn, NY
2006 • The Sumter County Gallery of Art, Arturo Lindsay: Healing, Sumter, SC
• Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Arturo Lindsay: Transition Hamilton, NY
2004 • City Gallery at Waterfront, Mapping Ports: Sullivan’s Island, Goreé Island, Portobelo, Havana and Seville, a retrospective exhibition Charleston, SC
2000 • Lonyear Museum, Colgate University - Santuario/Sanctuary Hamilton, NY
1999 • Segunda Bienal Iberoaméricana de Lima - Salones de Artis...