Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique and Deputy Head of School, Director of Research at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK); and was co-convener and faculty member for the final Stone Summer Theory Institute, Farewell to Visual Studies (School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2011).
He is a managing editor of Theory, Culture & Society, an editorial board member of Journal of Contemporary Painting, and an associate member of Tate Exchange, University of Southampton’s Web Science Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute’s AI for Arts interest group.
He teaches and writes on various aspects of critical theory, visual arts and image studies. He is author of Image Studies: Theory and Practice (2013), and editor of Zero Degree Seeing: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics (2019); India’s Biennale Effect: A Politics of Contemporary Art (2016); Farewell to Visual Studies (2015), Images: A Reader (2006), and the multi-volume sets Images: Critical and Primary Sources (2013), and Painting: Critical and Primary Sources (2015); as well as curator of Barthes/Burgin (John Hansard Gallery, 2016), and Building an Art Biennale (2018) and Itinerant Objects (2019) at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern.
