Bentley Brown is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and professor of art and art history at Arizona State University, New York University, and the Parsons School of Design. In his artistic practice, inspired by African American cultural production, Brown utilizes mediums of painting, found objects, photo collage, photography, and film to explore themes of American interculturalism, Black identity, cosmology, and improvisational form. Brown’s writing has been published in Artforum, Frieze, and Berlin Art Link. He is the former curatorial director of the Brooklyn College Art Gallery, where his curated exhibitions included the first survey of works by pioneering photographer and historian of Black photography Deborah Willis. He holds a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and an MA in African Studies from University College London.  

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