About me
Dr. Huey Copeland, Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh, is widely recognized as a leader in art history, specializing in visual cultures and critical theories of the African diaspora, Europe, and the United States. He is the author of Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America (Chicago, 2013) and co-editor of the award-winning volume Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World (National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2023). An editor of October, a director of the Terra Foundation, and recipient of the 2019 Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History, Copeland has contributed over 70 essays, interviews, and reviews to flagship publications including Art Journal, Artforum, Nka, Representations, and Small Axe. His forthcoming book Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons (Chicago, 2026) assembles a number of these works alongside new interventions; the project has already been recognized with an Absolut Art Writing Award intended to support “transformative projects by the world’s most creative talent.”
