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Erich Kessel is an Assistant Professor at New York University's Department of Art History, specializing in contemporary art and critical black studies. His work examines how racial violence and capitalist structures shape visual culture, aesthetics, and embodiment. Kessel holds a PhD from Yale University (2023) and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (2016). He participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow (2022).
His research integrates Marxist political economy critiques, psychoanalytic theory, and postcolonial studies to analyze art from the 1970s onward. Key areas include antiblackness, Atlantic slavery's legacy, and the intersection of racial hierarchies with capitalist systems.
Recent publications include co-editing An Excess of Quiet (2020), a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and essays on the African Burial Ground National Monument and Jacolby Satterwhite's multimedia work. Courses taught explore black conceptualism, experimental cinema, and the critique of representation.
- Awards: Lambda Literary Award Finalist (2021)
His interdisciplinary approach bridges art history with critical theory, interrogating how structural violence influences both artistic narratives and societal 'common sense.'
