Petrina Dacres is an educator and curator on contemporary Caribbean and African Diaspora art and visual culture. She is Head of the Art History Department at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica.  Petrina is also a founding member of Tide Rising Art Projects, an organization created to support and promote contemporary Caribbean art and film. 

Her research areas include the art and politics of memory in the Caribbean, public monuments and heroism in contemporary Caribbean art.  

During her fellowship at KITLV, Petrina will extend her analysis of commemorative statues and monuments in Jamaica to contemporary (anti)heroic art practices in the region.