Antwaun Sargent
Antwaun Sargent Antwaun Sargent is an American writer, editor and curator, living in New York City. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and various art publications. Sargent is the author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (Aperture) and the editor of Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (DAP). He has championed Black art and fashion by young Black photographers, and has built a youth culture around it.[1] He is also a director at Gagosian Gallery. Sargent was born and raised in Chicago. He became interested in art and photography from visiting museums at a very young age. He graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelors of Science in Culture and Politics. He also holds a Masters Degree in Education[2] from the Relay Graduate School of Education.Sargent started out teaching kindergarten in New York[2] for Teach for America. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Surface, and Interview.[...