dehja carrington

CO-FOUNDER, COMMISSIONER, ART ADVISOR, CURATOR…

Dejha Carrington is a practitioner and consultant in the arts.

In 2017, Dejha co-founded Commissioner, an art membership that helps people collect the work of contemporary artists in their cities. She serves as Executive Director and has thus far introduced the program in Miami, Detroit, New York, Montreal, and, Mexico City. From 2015 to 2022, Dejha served as Vice President of Strategic Communications for YoungArts, the national foundation for the advancement of artists. Previously, she led public relations initiatives with Kimball Art Museum, the Medellin Biennial in Colombia, and the National Film Board of Canada.

Dejha is a board member of the national performance arts funder MAP Fund in New York, and The Black School, an experimental schoolhouse in New Orleans. She is also a professional advisory member of Miami-Dade Art In Public Places, New York University’s Center for Black Visual Culture, and University of Miami’s Center for Global Black Studies. Dejha teaches the Business of Art at New World School of the Arts at Miami-Dade College and calls Miami her home base.