Gee Wesley
Gee Wesley is an arts organizer whose work explores how the aesthetic and cultural practices of Black diasporas inspire liberatory ways of redefining knowledge, transforming value, and restoring the past.
Biography
Wesley was born in Monrovia, Liberia and is based in Brooklyn, NY, and Providence, RI, where he is a PhD student at Brown University in the department of Modern Culture and Media. Before Brown, Wesley held roles as a Curatorial Associate at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Program Director at Recess (Brooklyn, NY), Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter (Queens, NY), and Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA). He has been adjunct faculty at Bard College, Bennington College, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Yale School of Art.
Wesley is a co-founder of Ulises, a nonprofit art bookshop based in Philadelphia, and the founder of Afrophon, a project dedicated to contemporary African artists' books, art books, and independent art publishing. He received his M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Wesley is a visiting faculty member in the Low-Residency MFA in Dance program at Bennington for Summer 2025.