(b. 1966) considers art history, art criticism, exhibition-making and art administration as part of his artistic practice. In the mid-1990s he was the founding director and the first "curator" of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau (Moldova), and since 2012 he has been the founding director/curator of the American University of Beirut (AUB) Art Galleries. Today he is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches courses in art history, histories of exhibitions, and methods, practices, and theories of art and its modes of display. He continues to serve as director/curator of AUB Art Galleries. He has degrees in studio arts, late socialist agitprop and socialist realist representation, capitalist design and interior architecture, and a Ph.D. in contemporary art history and visual studies from Duke University (2009). His research activities, which combine theoretical and practical work, revolve around the study of major transformation/transition of art following the global processes of modernization and neoliberalization. Since 2011 he has been part of the international editorial collective of ARTMargins Print—an MIT Press journal.