{{short description|American art historian}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Lisa Farrington | honorific_suffix = | image = Lisa Farrington 2017 (cropped).jpg <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | image_upright = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = A woman with dark hair in a bun, wearing a red cardigan, there is the edge of the back of a computer screen in the forground and a part of a slide projection in the background. | caption = Farrington gives a talk in 2017 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pronunciation = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | baptised = <!-- will not display if birth_date is entered --> | disappeared_date = <!-- {{Disappeared date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (disappeared date then birth date) --> | disappeared_place = | disappeared_status = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (enter DEATH date then BIRTH date (e.g., ...|1967|31|8|1908|28|2}} use both this parameter and |birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> | death_place = | death_cause = <!--should only be included when the cause of death has significance for the subject's notability--> | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | burial_place = <!-- may be used instead of resting_place and resting_place_coordinates (displays "Burial place" as label) --> | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | monuments = | nationality = | other_names = | siglum = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Howard University and American University | occupation = | years_active = | era = | employer = John Jay College of Criminal Justice | organization = | agent = <!-- Discouraged in most cases, specifically when promotional, and requiring a reliable source --> | known_for = | notable_works = <!-- produces label "Notable work"; may be overridden by |credits=, which produces label "Notable credit(s)"; or by |works=, which produces label "Works"; or by |label_name=, which produces label "Label(s)" --> | style = | title = Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art and Music <!-- Formal/awarded/job title. The parameter |office=may be used as an alternative when the label is better rendered as "Office" (e.g. public office or appointments) --> | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charges = <!-- Criminality parameters should be supported with citations from reliable sources --> | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = <!-- Use article title or common name --> | partner = <!-- (unmarried long-term partner) --> | children = | parents = <!-- overrides mother and father parameters --> | mother = <!-- may be used (optionally with father parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | father = <!-- may be used (optionally with mother parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}
'''Lisa Farrington''' is an American art historian, specializing in African-American art, Haitian art, and women's art. She is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art and Music at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/lisa-farrington|title=Lisa Farrington|work=John Jay College of Criminal Justice|access-date=2018-04-15|language=en|archive-date=2018-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416074105/https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/lisa-farrington|url-status=dead}}</ref> Farrington is one of the major scholars of Faith Ringgold, is the author of several books on African-American art, and is one of only six full professors of African-American art history in the United States.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}{{When|date=December 2020}}
== Career == Farrington is a graduate of Howard University (BFA) and American University (MA), and subsequently obtained her MPh and PhD in Art History & philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1997 with a dissertation titled “Faith Ringgold: The Early Works & the Evolution of the Thangka Paintings”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/cv/Farrington_Lisa.pdf|title=Lisa Farrington CV|last=Farrington|first=Lisa|access-date=April 15, 2018|archive-date=April 14, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414032658/http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/cv/Farrington_Lisa.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Her 2005 book ''Creating Their Own Image'' was the first comprehensive history of African-American female artists, from slavery to the present day. Her 2015 book, ''African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History'', is an updated survey on African-American art.
She was the William & Camille Cosby Endowed Scholar at Atlantic University/Spelman College from 2008 to 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gainformer.com/files/Spelman%20College%20Announces%20Chairs.htm|title=Spelman College Announces New Cosby Chairs|website=www.gainformer.com|access-date=2018-04-15|archive-date=2012-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523061058/http://www.gainformer.com/files/Spelman%20College%20Announces%20Chairs.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2009, she received a grant from Creative Capital Art and the Andy Warhol Foundation to work on a monograph on Emma Amos.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artswriters.org/grant/grantees/grantee/lisa_farrington|title=Lisa Farrington - Grantees - Arts Writers Grant Program|website=www.artswriters.org|access-date=2018-04-15}}</ref>
On February 7, 2014, Farrington delivered a lecture, "The Artistic World before Racism: A Compelling Presentation of the African Diaspora Portrayed from Antiquity to the Present," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-speaks/free-lectures/artistic-world-before-racism|title=The Artistic World before Racism|website=www.metmuseum.org|access-date=2018-04-16}}</ref>
== Curatorial activities == In 2013, Farrington curated the traveling exhibit "Women Call for Peace: Global Vistas."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/65466/-Women-Call-for-Peace--Global-Vistas--opens-at-John-Jay-College-of-Criminal-Justice#.WtPbLNPwbOQ|title="Women Call for Peace: Global Vistas" opens at John Jay College of Criminal Justice|last=Villarreal|first=Ignacio|website=artdaily.com|language=en|access-date=2018-04-15}}</ref> The exhibit included works by artists including Emma Amos, Siona Benjamin, Chakaia Booker, Judy Chicago, Susanne Kessler, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Robinson, Flo Oy Wong, and Helen Zughaib. She has also curated exhibits of art by Jill Freedman,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.jillfreedman.com/blog/2015/10/12/street-cops-at-john-jay-college|title=Street Cops at John Jay College|work=JILL FREEDMAN|access-date=2018-04-16|language=en-US}}</ref> Charlotta Janssen,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://charlottajanssen.com/about-cv/|title=About / CV|website=Charlotta Janssen|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-16|archive-date=2018-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416074007/http://charlottajanssen.com/about-cv/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Gaye Ellington.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/news-and-events|title=News and Events|work=John Jay College of Criminal Justice|access-date=2018-04-16|language=en}}</ref>
== Bibliography == *''Black Artists in Their Own Words'' (University of California Press, 2025)
* ''African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History'' (Oxford University Press, 2015) * ''Creating Their Own Image: the History of African-American Women Artists'' (New York: Oxford University, 2005; 2nd ed. 2011).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/12834/reviews/12939/collins-farrington-creating-their-own-image-history-african-american|title=Collins on Farrington, 'Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists' {{!}} H-AfrArts {{!}} H-Net|website=networks.h-net.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-16}}</ref> Awarded the 2005 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award from the American Association of Black Women Historians.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web.mnstate.edu/schwartz/assocofblackwomenhistorians.htm|title=Association of Black Women Historians Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award|website=web.mnstate.edu|access-date=2018-04-15}}</ref> * ''Voices in Cloth: Story Quilts'' (Hattiesburg: University of Southern Mississippi, 2004) * ''A Real-World Guide to Academic Publishing'' (New York: Millennium Fine Arts Publishing, 2006) * ''Faith Ringgold'' (San Francisco: Pomegranate Fine Arts Publishers, 2004) * ''Art on Fire: the Politics of Race and Sex in the Paintings of Faith Ringgold'' (New York: Millennium Fine Arts Publishing, 1999)
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== External links ==
* https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/lisa-farrington {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416074105/https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/lisa-farrington |date=2018-04-16 }}
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