It was wonderful to co-author, along with cultural critic Roxanne Gay, this monograph of critically acclaimed artist Mickalene Thomas's work. This collection surveys her extensive body of work spanning paintings, portraitures, photography, and photographic collage.

Over the past two decades, Mickalene Thomas’s critically acclaimed and extensive body of work has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and the immersive installations that have become her signature. With influences ranging from nineteenth-century painting to popular culture, Thomas’s art articulates a complex and empowering vision of aspiration and self-image through gender and race while expanding on and subverting common definitions of beauty, sexuality, and celebrity. Publication coincided with the opening of Mickalene Thomas’s first global exhibition, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, at Lévy Gorvy galleries in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris in 2021.

I'm honored to be named the inaugural Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art! Named after legendary artist Hans Hofmann, who played a pivotal role in the Abstract Expressionist movement of postwar American and German art and became known for his transcendant experimental color combinations and bold contrasts, this professorship at Columbia was established to honor Hofmann and advance the University’s scholarship in Modern Art.

Thank you to the Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust and the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology for this recognition of my work to broaden our understanding of modern and contemporary art.

For almost fifty years, Senga Nengudi has shaped an œuvre that inhabits a specific and unique place between sculpture, dance, and performance. And that work has been widely recognized as groundbreaking: Her iconic R.S.V.P. sculptures—performative objects made from pantyhose and materials such as sand and stone—are now part of the collections of important American museums. Thanks to newly researched material that lay fallow until now, this book brings to light astonishing early works by an artist who has consistently attempted to expand the definition of what sculpture can be.

I’m excited to have contributed “The World According to Z” to Senga Nengudi, Topologies (Munich: Lenbachhaus, 2019), which offers an unprecedented view of Nengudi’s career and development.