Associate Professor
As a curator, writer and educator, Noah Simblist works on the ways in which contemporary artists address history, sovereignty, and the tensions between political forces and self-determination. He edited “Living to Learn: Art + Education for the Common Good” (2026), co-published by Inventory Press and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), supported by the Teiger Foundation; “Tania Bruguera: The Francis Effect“ (Deep Vellum, 2022); and “Artist in Residence” (Publication Studio, 2021). He has contributed to Art in America, e-flux, Burnaway, Art Journal, Terremoto, Liquid Architecture, and other publications. Curatorial projects include “Commonwealth” at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (2020), “Conjunctions and Disjunctions” at Black Ground in Cali, Colombia (2022). “Aissa Deebi: Exile is Hard Work” at Birzeit University Museum in Palestine (2017); “False Flags” at Pelican Bomb in New Orleans (2016), and “Emergency Measures” at the Power Station, Dallas (2015). He is currently working on Cracks in the Edifice: Niemeyer’s Futuristic Fairground in Tripoli, co-organized with Suzi Halajian, supported by the Graham Foundation. He is associate professor of art at VCU.