Mahan Moalemi is a critic, curator, and a PhD candidate in visual studies at Harvard University. He is the co-editor of Ethnofuturisms (Merve Verlag, 2018) and has written for Art in America, Cabinet, Domus, e-flux, and Frieze, among other journals, exhibition catalogues, and artist monographs. He was the 2021-2022 Graduate Curatorial Fellow at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.