Faculty

Bentley Brown (1995-) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and doctoral candidate at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and is based in the Bronx, NY and Phoenix, AZ. His research at the Institute explores the pioneering role of Black artists and Black creative spaces within New York City’s contemporary art movements of the late 1960s through the mid 1980s. Brown’s research into not only his personal past but the collective history of the African diaspora has led him to attain a master's degree in African Studies from University College London in addition to his doctoral work at New York York University. In his artistic practice, inspired by African American cultural production, abstract and figurative expressionist approaches to artistic process and the desert landscape of his native Phoenix, Brown uses the mediums of canvas, found objects, photo-collage and film  to explore themes of Black identity, cosmology, and American interculturalism.

Ph.D. Candidate, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, M.A. in Intredisplinary Studies, New York University Center for Experimental Humanities, 2020 M.A. in African Studies University College London Center for African Studies 2018 B.A. in Entrepreneurship and Art History, Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, 2017