From the Underground to the Foreground

Greg Foster-Rice (he/him) is an associate professor of the history of photography and Associate Provost for Student Retention Initiatives at Columbia College Chicago. Most recently, he curated The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics, which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (2018) and traveled to DePauw University in fall 2022. For that exhibition, Foster-Rice edited and co-authored a scholarly catalogue of essays surveying Arnold’s extensive career. Previously he co-curated The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, 1960-1980 at the Art Institute of Chicago and Princeton University Art Museum. He co-authored that exhibition’s catalogue, which received the Philip Johnson Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2015. He has a BA from Rice University and a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University.

Leslie M. Wilson is Associate Director for Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the curator of not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s currently on view at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, where she was a curatorial fellow from 2019 to 2021. Her research, teaching, and curatorial endeavors focus on the history of photography, the arts of Africa and the African diaspora, modern and contemporary American art, and museum studies. She has recently written for publications including Jamel Shabazz: Albums, FOAM Magazine, and Manual. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago and a BA in International Relations from Wellesley College.