Elvan Zabunyan

Elvan Zabunyan is a contemporary art historian, professor at Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne and art critic. Her work crosses racial, postcolonial and feminist issues, along with the political and cultural history of the United States in relation to artistic engagement since the 1960s. She is the author of a pioneering book on the history of African-American art, Black Is A Color (2004), and the first monograph on the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (2013). Her current research focuses on the memory of slavery as a political tool in contemporary art, and will be the subject of the book Réunir les bouts du monde (B42, 2024). More recently, she has co-edited books such as Constellations subjectives, pour une histoire féministe de l'art (iXe, 2020), Decolonizing Colonial Heritage, New Agendas, Actors, and Practices in and beyond Europe (Routledge, 2022) and L'art en France à la croisée des cultures (Heilderberg University, 2023).