Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of contemporary art and visual culture. He works in contemporary aesthetic and cultural theory with particular attention to technocultural engagements with the complexities of representation. He has contributed to leading magazines and journals such as Radical History Review, American Art, Art in America, Parachute, Art Journal, Third Text, Consumption Markets & Culture, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, where he currently serves as Associate Editor. Murray served on the Editorial Board of Art Journal (CAA) and is currently on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Third Text and Visual Studies, the official journal of the International Visual Sociology Association. He is the author of Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control (Bloomsbury, 2020), Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (I.B. Tauris, UK, 2016), and an edited volume Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie (Routledge Press, 2020).
Murray is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Art Journal.
DEREK CONRAD MURRAY 