J.V. Decemvirale is a Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. He was a Faculty Fellow in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies at Syracuse University and earned his PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Specializing in modern and contemporary art, his research focuses on the histories of Black and Latinx art spaces in Los Angeles.