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Gylbert Coker

1944–

United States

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Gylbert Coker (Gylbert Garvin Coker; b. 1944) is an African-American art historian, artist, and curator who has worked to establish Black artists and art in the canon of American art. Coker was an early member of Where We At, a group of Black women artists established in 1971 who created the first exhibition of Black women's art.

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