Glenn Ligon

Huey Copeland is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh. An editor of OCTOBER, his books include Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America, Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World (edited with Steven Nelson), and Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons. A recipient of the 2019 David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art, Copeland currently serves on the board of directors of the Terra Foundation for American Art.