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Jamal Batts is a Research Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and a Guest Curator/Visiting Critic at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. His work bridges curatorial practice, academic scholarship, and cultural critique, focusing on Black queer aesthetics and the intersections of art, risk, and identity. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley’s Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
Research interests include Black queer contemporary art, HIV/AIDS cultural history, experimental film, and critical race theory. His dissertation Immoral Panics: Black Queer Aesthetics and the Construction of Risk examines sexual risk narratives from the AIDS crisis to today. He co-founded The Black Aesthetic collective, organizing experimental film screenings and publishing critical works.
Awarded prestigious fellowships including the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and Rauschenberg Scholar-in-Residence, Batts has contributed to exhibitions like SFMOMA’s SOFT POWER and The New Museum’s Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. His writing appears in ASAP/J, Open Space, and SFMOMA’s Modern Cinema series.
