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. He was the former curatorial director of the Brooklyn College Art Gallery, where his curated exhibitions included the first survey of the work of pioneering photographer and historian of Black photography Deborah Willis. In his artistic practice, inspired by African American cultural production, Brown employs improvisation and abstract and figurative expressionist approaches to the artistic process, utilizing media such as canvas, found objects, photo collage, photography, and film to explore themes of Black identity, cosmology, and American interculturalism. Brown’s writing has been published in Artforum, Frieze, and Berlin Art Link. 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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