Jaleh Mansoor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Visual Art at the University of British Columbia. Her areas of research and teaching include post-WWII abstraction, Marxist theory, and critical curatorial studies. Her most recent projects include an investigation of procedural violence in the work of Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, and Piero Manzini, as well as the idea of labor, value, and “bare life” in the work of Santiago Sierra and Claire Fontaine.

Last updated: September 2013