Colony Little is a freelance arts writer and critic based in Raleigh, NC. She became a writer in 2015 after a 20+ year career as a commercial technology underwriting manager for Chubb Insurance in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. She is the creator of Culture Shock Art, a contemporary art blog dedicated to amplifying the voices of Black artists and artists of color. Colony was a 2020 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and was a member of the 2022 cohort of the MHz Curationist Critics of Color residency. Her writing is featured in Art Basel Magazine, Artnet, ARTnews, Arts.Black, CARLA, Cultured Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, W Magazine, and Walter Magazine. She has also written numerous museum exhibition and artist catalog essays. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and currently serves as a board member for CAM Raleigh.