Dr. Thomas Folland

Dr. Thomas Folland is an Associate Professor of Art History at Los Angeles Mission College. Formerly a curator and art critic based in Toronto, he received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2010. His article “Robert Rauschenberg’s Queer Modernism: The Early Combines” was published in The Art Bulletin in 2010 and an exhibition catalogue on the work of HK Zamani for CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles in 2012. His recent essay “Robert Rauschenberg's Red Show: Theater, Painting, and Queerness in 1950s Modernism" was published in the January 2017 issue of Modernism/modernity and "Readymade Primitivism: Marcel Duchamp, Dada, and African Art" was published in the British journal Art History in 2020.