To celebrate the opening of ‘Prelude to Mountains’ by the late Atta Kwami, Assistant Curator of African Art for Princeton University Dr Perrin Lathrop and Ugandan writer Serubiri Moses will discuss Kwami’s significant contribution to non-Western expressions of modernism and explore the pivotal moments that shaped his artistic practice.  – Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator and author based in New York City. He currently serves as faculty in Art History at Hunter College, and visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He previously held positions at New York University and the New Centre for Research and Practice, and delivered lectures at Williams College, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh, The New School, and basis voor aktuelle kunst (NL), and University of the Arts Helsinki (FL). As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY. He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, and received his MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and is an alumni of the Àsìkò International Art Programme. He serves on the editorial team of e-flux journal.
Perrin Lathrop, PhD joined the Princeton University Art Museum as Assistant Curator of African Art in 2022. She was previously Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Maryland-Phillips Collection (2021–22), the Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellow at Fisk University Galleries (2018–19), and Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (2017–18). Perrin curated The Art of Translation: The Simon Ottenberg Gift of Modern and Contemporary Nigerian Art at the Newark Museum (2012–2013). She received her PhD from Princeton University in the Department of Art & Archaeology with a Graduate Certificate in African American Studies in 2021. Her work explores the interlocking intellectual histories and networks of nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and modernism that informed art produced under the strictures of colonialism in Africa. Perrin is co-curator of the traveling exhibition African Modernism in America with Fisk University Galleries and the American Federation of Arts and editor of its accompanying publication.

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