Elvan Zabunyan is a contemporary art historian, art critic and professor at University of Rennes. She works across issues of race and feminism, as well as on the political and cultural history of the United States in relationship to artistic practices since the 1960s. She is the author of Black is A Color, a History of African American Contemporary Art (winner of the 2005 SAES/AFEA research prize), and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha–Berlekey–1968 (2013). She co-edited a special issue for the journal Slaveries and Post-Slaveries, the anthology, Constellations subjectives, pour une histoire féministe de l’art (both 2020) and Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe (2022).
