Chaédria LaBouvier

Chaédria LaBouvier (born July 5, 1981/1982) is an American curator and journalist. In 2019, LaBouvier became the first black woman to curate a solo exhibition for the Guggenheim and write a text for the museum. Her criticism of the museum led to them hiring their first full-time black curator in the same year. 2Early life and education LaBouvier was born in the United States. Her mother is Collette Flanagan, former IBM executive and founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality. Her younger brother, Clinton Allen, was killed by Dallas police in March 2013.In 2007, LaBouvier received a B.A. in history from Williams College. In 2014, she earned a masters of fine arts degree in screenwriting from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 2Career In November 2015, LaBouvier was hired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as the first black woman in the history of the Guggenheim to organize a solo exhibition. The exhibition, "Basquiat's Defacement: The Untold Story," opened in 2019 and covered not only Basquiat's work, but also the history of Michael Stewart, whose alleged death from police brutality inspired the painting, The Death of Michael Stewart. Other paintings by Basquiat on the theme of police brutality and art featuring Stewart by Keith Haring, George Condo and Lyle Ashton Harris were also included in the exhibitio