Please join the Department of Studio Art for a lecture by the spring term 2026 Outside Evaluator, Jeffrey De Blois.
This lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27 in the Loew Auditorium.
Jeffrey De Blois (he/him) is Mannion Family Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, where he has organized Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now; Believers: Artists and the Shakers; Sara Cqynar: Alphabet; Charles Atlas: About Time; Tau Lewis: Spirit Level; Tammy Nguyen; Rose B. Simpson: Legacies; Napoleon Jones-Henderson: I Am As I Am – A Man; Raúl de Nieves: The Treasure House of Memory; Eva LeWitt; Carolina Caycedo: Cosmotarrayas; and Caitlin Keoh: Blank Melody, among others. He has been a critical contributor to several other projects at the ICA, including To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood; Sterling Ruby; Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design; William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects; and Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today. He has written essays on the work of artists Charles ARtlas, Tau Lewis, Marlon Forrester, Carolina Caycedo, William Kentridge, Caitlin KEogh, and Sterling Ruby. At the ICA, De Blois oversees the museum's ambitious publications program. Before joining the ICA, De Blois was curatorial fellow at MIT List Visual Arts Center. He holds a MA from Boston University in the History of Art & Architecture.