Rattanamol Singh Johal
Professor of South Asian Arts and History of Art, University of Michigan (USA)
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Rattanamol Singh Johal holds the Shireen and Afzal Ahmad Professorship in South Asian Arts and is Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, he was Assistant Director of the International Program at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, where he contributed to a number of collection acquisitions and managed the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) initiative as well as the Primary Documents publication series. At MoMA, he cocurated the exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP (2025), the contemporary collection displays—War Remembers Me (2024–2025) and Staging Selves (ongoing)—and was a member of the curatorial team for Signals: How Video Transformed the World (2023). He holds a doctorate from Columbia University, where he curated the exhibition Homage: Queer Lineages on Video (2025) at the university’s Wallach Art Gallery. He currently coconvenes and moderates the Experimenter Curators’ Hub in Kolkata. He has held fellowships at the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Tate Research Centre: Asia and was a Curator at Khoj International Artists’ Association in New Delhi.