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Gabrielle Mitchell-Bonds (she/they) is an artist, writer, and researcher studying History and Literature and the History of Art at Harvard University. With an interest in Black art and performance, her work is grounded in Black feminist literary traditions and aesthetic interventions since the 20th century. She is currently a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
Gabrielle Mitchell-Bonds
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“Four Womxn: New Musings on Blackness” Centers the Black Female Gaze at the MFA | BOSTON ART REVIEW
Catch(ing) a Black Spirit: Conseulo Kanaga at the Brooklyn Museum | BURNAWAY MAGAZINE
Celebrating Art, Legacy, and Liberation at Northeastern’s bell hooks symposium | BOSTON ART REVIEW
ESSAYS
an excess of aliveness: the museum as every Where | SELF-PUBLISHED
I am Black Alive and Looking Back at You | SELF-PUBLISHED
To Consider This Land | JOURNAL OF ART CRITICISM
Tschabalala Self’s Sweet Nothings | YALE UNIVERSITY ASTERISK* UNDERGRADUATE JOURNAL OF ART AND ART HISTORY
Onyx and Venus | SELF-PUBLISHED
RESEARCH
Portrait of a Muted Longing:
Afterimages of Black Girlhood in 19th-Century Photographic Archives | JUSTICE FOR BLACK GIRLS, BLACK GIRLHOOD STUDIES FELLOWSHIP 2025-2026
CREATIVE WRITING
Grace or the Ageless Winds of Time | SELF-PUBLISHED
Hidden/ness | SELF-PUBLISHED