writes art history, art criticism, and theory, in addition to making art exhibitions, seeing these activities as part of one artistic practice. He resists the labels of “art historian,” or “curator” (he also rejects being called a “driver” merely for knowing how to drive). In the mid-1990s, he was the founding director and first curator of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Chisinau (Moldova). Since 2012, he has served as director/curator of the American University of Beirut (AUB) Art Galleries and Collections. Today, he directs the AUB Art Galleries and is associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History, where he teaches modern and contemporary art history, theories and methods, exhibition histories, and practices of display. He holds degrees in socialist realist studio arts, late socialist agitprop, design and interior architecture, and earned a Ph.D. in contemporary art history and visual studies (Duke University, 2009). His research addresses the paradigm of “contemporary art” in relation to neoliberalization, while his theoretical work explores modernist aesthetics and art-historical methods. He playfully integrates these insights into practice. Since 2011, he has been part of the ARTMargins Print editorial collective.