Marsha Pearce

Dr. Marsha Pearce is British Academy Global Professor at The Fitzwilliam Museum. Her current research project is titled “Trembling Abode: Reimagining the Museum as Home for Global Majority Artists.” This work considers issues of belonging and agency, and nurtures academic and creative relationships between the UK and the Caribbean. It applies Caribbean-rooted philosophies across four research pillars: acquisitions, artist residencies, curation and public engagement.

Marsha holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, both from the University of the West Indies (UWI). She has taught in the Visual Arts Unit at UWI for over a decade and worked as Unit Coordinator from 2018-2022. She also held the role of Deputy Dean of Distance and Outreach at the UWI Faculty of Humanities and Education. She has served on the board of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), and as a consultant for the Draft National Policy on Culture and the Arts of T&T. She has also worked as an assistant chief examiner for Caribbean Studies, offered as part of the Caribbean Examinations Council programme administered across the Caribbean. 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. She has contributed chapters to books on Caribbean Studies, Art Education, Therapeutic Cultures, Diaspora Studies and Travel and Tourism. Her commissioned essays are featured in several exhibition catalogues, contemporary art survey publications and artist monographs.