Arturo Lindsay

Dr. Arturo Lindsay is an artist, scholar, and educator whose work is informed by the research he conducts on African spiritual and aesthetic retentions in America. His findings are manifested in works of art, essays, and lectures. A native of Colón, Panama, his family migrated to the United States when he was 12 and settled in Brooklyn, New York. 

In the 1980s Lindsay joined Plexus International, a multinational group of artists dedicated to creating large-scale collaborative art projects in New York City, Rome, Dakar, Atlanta, Sardinia, Sydney, and Portobelo. Lindsay's work has been presented in more than 30 solo and 80 group exhibitions. He has produced more than 40 video projects, installations, and performance-art rituals in national and international venues. He has authored more than 20 articles on the art and aesthetics of the African Diaspora. He is the editor of Santeria Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Art, a pioneering text that explores the legacy of the Yoruba aesthetic from antiquity to contemporary art theory and practice.

In 2012 Lindsay was selected by the Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts to participate in smARTpower in Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Lindsay is professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Art & Visual Culture at Spelman College, Atlanta, GA.  
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1946

Colón, Republic of Panama

Gender

Male

Nationality

American, Panamanian

Heritage

Afro-Latino

Panamanian

Latin American