Janine A. Sytsma is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she examines contemporary art of Global Africa. She is currently completing two manuscripts: The Decolonial Project: Contemporary Art at the Ife Art School and The Politics of (In)visibility: Africa at the Venice Biennale. Her writing on these and related topics has appeared in edited volumes and exhibition catalogues, as well as in journals such as African Arts, Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, and TOJA: The OYASAF Journal of Art. Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships, including a Venetian Research Program Fellowship from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, a Cambridge Research Fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, a CIC–Smithsonian Institution Fellowship at the National Museum of African Art, a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, and an Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation Fellowship, among others. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Denver and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Before joining the University of Arkansas, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University and also taught at the University of Colorado Denver and Colorado State University, Fort Collins.