Amarie Gipson is a writer, DJ and creative entrepreneur. She currently lives and works in Houston, Texas.

ABOUT ME

Amarie Gipson (b. 1996, Houston, Texas) is a writer, art worker, and DJ. She earned a BA in Liberal Studies (with concentrations in Art History & Philosophy) and Sociology from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas (2018). Gipson has held curatorial positions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Renaissance Society, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Contemporary Austin, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Independently, her work has been published in several journals and magazines including Artforum, ARTNews, ARTS.BLACK, Gulf Coast, and THE SEEN. She is an alumnus of the Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship, DAMLI Emerging Art Leader program, and the Momus Emerging Critics Residency.

Gipson is dedicated to ensuring that scholarly discussions of Black cultural production are accessible and carefully historicized. Her research and writing interests range from Black feminist theory and experimental cinema to Southern hip-hop and culture. She is the former Editorial Director of MUD Magazine and the Arts & Culture editor of Houstonia Magazine. Gipson authors The Art of Return, a monthly newsletter on art, culture and Black womanhood.