Carlee S. Forbes is associate curator of African and Oceanic art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has previous experience at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, and was previously part of the Mellon-funded research team at the Fowler Museum. Her research focuses on provnenace histories as lens for illuminating social, cultural, and political histories. Her curatorial practice speaks to redefining the art historical canon by making space for new narratives in collection holdings and exhibition texts while also advocating for community collaboration in care and display practices. Exhibitions she has curated or co-curated include: Ex-Change (2025), Particular Histories: Provenance Research in African Arts (2022), Evidence & Expertise (2016), Kongo across the Waters (2013), and the 2017 reinstallation of the long-term African art galleries at the North Carolina Musuem of Art. Forbes received her Ph.D. in art history from UNC-Chapel Hill and she is on the board of African Arts journal. She has published extensively on provenance and collection histories and is committed to training students in provenance methodologies, piloting the Fowler’s transcription internship program and now serving as co-organizer for Denver University’s Center for Art Collection Ethics’s summer 2026 provenance training certificate program.