Gervais Marsh

Dr. Gervais Marsh is a writer, curator, and scholar based in New York City, whose practice meditates on questions of relation, intimacy, and the limits of reconciliation. Guided by a desire to foster emotional resonances through texts, exhibition making, public art, and programming, they seek to ignite ongoing reflection rather than definitive answers. They think alongside artists across all mediums, nurturing an interweaving of texts from expansive areas of thought. With a commitment to citation influenced by Black Feminisms, they believe that knowledge is created collectively, and lean into the vulnerability of uncertainty, recognizing that not everything can be known. Affirming modes of meaning making that circumvent the grips of racial capitalism, they prioritize listening, introspection, and thoughtful dialogue as critical to intentional study.

They are the Artist Research Manager on the curatorial team at Creative Time, and their writing has been published widely in artist monographs, exhibition catalogs and arts journals. They grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, a home that shapes their understanding of self and relationship to the world.