Vera Ingrid Grant is a curator and a scholar who has produced numerous national and international exhibitions. She is specialized on African and African American art and issues related to race and social justice in contemporary art.

Vera Ingrid Grant is an independent curator and writer based in Ann Arbor MI. She served as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (2018-19) and she was the founding director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. Vera Ingrid Grant has an MA in Modern European History from Stanford University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hamburg. Her recent exhibitions include: Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (2020); COLLECTION ENSEMBLE (a reinstallation of the permanent collection); Abstraction, Color, and Politics (2019) and Reflections: An Ordinary Day in Inuit Art, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Carrie Mae Weems: I Once was a Girl (2017); Harlem: Found Ways (2017); THE WOVEN ARC (2016); Art of Jazz: NOTES (2016) at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery (Harvard University). Vera Ingrid Grant received a number of fellowships: the Center for Curatorial Leadership (2015-16); the Studio Museum in Harlem (2014 and 2015); the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University (2012); and Visiting Scholar at the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy, Columbia Law School, NY (2011).