Huey Copeland is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh. His research and teaching focus on global modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in the Western visual field. Huey is the author of Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and co-editor of the award-winning edited volume Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World (National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2023). In addition, he has published more than 70 essays, interviews, and reviews in a range of journals and exhibition catalogues; his forthcoming book with Chicago, Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons, collects a number of these writings alongside new interventions. In 2019, his contributions to the field were recognized by the High Museum of Art with the David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History. An alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Huey earned a BA from the University of Michigan and both an MA and PhD in the history of art from the University of California, Berkeley.
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