Drew Thompson is an art historian and curator of African and Black Diaspora visual and material culture. He recently co-curated the award-winning exhibition Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village at the Dorsky Museum of Art and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His art criticism and writings on contemporary art have appeared in Africa Is A Country, Foam Magazine, the White Review and in edited volumes published by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Image Centre, and the Walther Collection.