Derek Conrad Murray is Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is one of the foremost experts on the subject of contemporary African-American art. He completed a Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University in 2005.

'In Queering Post-Black Art, Murray takes on the project of art history itself, its creation of arbitrary value that lauds certain efforts and excludes others. Murray parses out and takes on discourses that are key to understandings of art history, African-American art, and Contemporary art. He is unafraid of speaking truth to power.' - Cherise Smith, Associate Professor of Art History: African-American and African Diaspora Art

Derek Conrad Murray is Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is one of the foremost experts on the subject of contemporary African-American art. He completed a Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University in 2005.

'In Queering Post-Black Art, Murray takes on the project of art history itself, its creation of arbitrary value that lauds certain efforts and excludes others. Murray parses out and takes on discourses that are key to understandings of art history, African-American art, and Contemporary art. He is unafraid of speaking truth to power.' - Cherise Smith, Associate Professor of Art History: African-American and African Diaspora Art

Derek Conrad Murray is Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is one of the foremost experts on the subject of contemporary African-American art. He completed a Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University in 2005.

'In Queering Post-Black Art, Murray takes on the project of art history itself, its creation of arbitrary value that lauds certain efforts and excludes others. Murray parses out and takes on discourses that are key to understandings of art history, African-American art, and Contemporary art. He is unafraid of speaking truth to power.' - Cherise Smith, Associate Professor of Art History: African-American and African Diaspora Art