Colette Veasey Cullors

Colette Veasey-Cullors is a photographic artist whose artwork throughout her career has continually investigated themes pertaining to race, class, memory and identity with a genuine commitment to social and creative engagement with individuals and communities historically underinvested and underrepresented. She has worked with a number of community-based organizations and foundations including, Communities in Schools, Project Row Houses, Art on Purpose, 901 Arts, Baltimore Youth Film Arts, Art Source South Africa and MurthyNAYAK Foundation.

Veasey-Cullors’ photography is included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) and the Photographic History Collection of the National Museum of American History (NMAH), both of the Smithsonian Institution. Her work has been widely exhibited, including: The California African American Museum, The African American Museum in Philadelphia, South Korea’s 8th Daegu Photo Biennale, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston/Glassell School of Art, and The Chattanooga African American Museum. Veasey-Cullors’ work is included in the publications MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora (2017, Barrayn/Fawundu), an anthology featuring the work of more than 100 female photographers of African descent from around the world, and BLACK: A Celebration of a Culture (2004, Willis). 

Veasey-Cullors is currently Provost at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA. In 2021, she was appointed to the board of trustees at Aperture, NYC.

Veasey-Cullors received her MFA in Photography from Maryland Institute College of Art, 1996 and her BFA in Photography from the University of Houston, 1992.