Natalie Zelt

Natalie Zelt earned her doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin where she studied art of the United States with a focus on photography and critical race and gender studies. Zelt has worked as an independent curator, as founding member of the curatorial collective INGZ and for institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is the author of several articles on photography and identity in the United States and her manuscript Looking and Looking Back: The Photography, Blackness, Family, and Self-Representation in the Work of LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mickalene Thomas, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby is in development for publication. Zelt is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the African & African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas and will serve as the Terra Foundation Fellow in American Photography at the Rijksmuseum in 2021. She currently lives and works in Austin, TX.