Max Carocci

Max Carocci is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Richmond, the American University in London, UK. He is an anthropologist, and has been researching and curating Native North American arts at the intersection of art and anthropology since his first book Warriors of the Plains (2012). He has curated exhibitions for the British Museum, the Royal Anthropological Institute (London), the Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt), and the Venice Biennale, among others. In 2023 he curated...See more

Max Carocci is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Richmond, the American University in London, UK. He is an anthropologist, and has been researching and curating Native North American arts at the intersection of art and anthropology since his first book Warriors of the Plains (2012). He has curated exhibitions for the British Museum, the Royal Anthropological Institute (London), the Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt), and the Venice Biennale, among others. In 2023 he curated a virtual exhibition for the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland entitled 'Imaging the Field: Sketches and Drawings from the RAI Archives' which anticipates a conference on Ethnographic representations called 'Fieldwork Sketches: Blurring the Lines between Art and Anthropology' scheduled for 2024. Max's latest publication on the subject is 'Representations of Baja California Indians as Ethnographic Art' (Colonial Latin American Review, 2023). See less