Rattanamol Singh Johal is an art historian and curator. Since 2024, he has held the Shireen and Afzal Ahmad Professorship in South Asian Arts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as Assistant Professor in History of Art.
Between 2016 and 2024, Johal occupied various positions at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, most recently serving as Assistant Director of the International Program. At MoMA, he worked on the global research initiative, C-MAP, the online research platform, post, and the Primary Documents publication series. He co-organized the exhibition, Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP (2025) and its accompanying conference, CAMP Study Day, and was a member of the curatorial team for Signals: How Video Transformed the World (2023). He also co-chaired the Museum’s Contemporary Working Group (2023-24) and, in this capacity, co-organized the collection displays Staging Selves (2024-27) and War Remembers Me (2024-25).
Johal curated the exhibition, Homage: Queer Lineages on Video (2025) at the Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University, and serves as co-convener and moderator of the Experimenter Curators' Hub (2025-) in Kolkata, India. He holds a doctorate from Columbia University and was previously a fellow at the Tate Research Centre: Asia (2018), curator at Khoj International Artists’ Association in New Delhi (2011-2013), and a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program (2016-17).
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