Marsha Pearce

Marsha Pearce is a scholar, educator and independent curator from the Caribbean. She holds a BA in visual arts and a PhD in cultural studies. Pearce is a faculty member at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. She is a recipient of a 2024 Global Professorship from the British Academy to support her research project titled ‘Trembling Abode: Reimagining the Museum as Home for Global Majority Artists’. Pearce is undertaking this project in collaboration with The Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge. Her research and critical writings about visual culture have been published in several art catalogues as well as academic journals and books. She has served on the board of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago, and as a consultant for the Draft National Policy on Culture and the Arts of Trinidad and Tobago. Her curatorial projects include a collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London and the British Council for the Americas IN Britain—Caribbean Edition online exhibition project, and her work with the Pérez Art Museum Miami to co-curate the group show The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art.