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Jeppe Ugelvig is a curator, historian, and cultural critic based in New York City. He is a current Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz, where his research focuses on artistic responses to consumerism in the global 20th century. Jeppe holds an undergraduate degree in Communication, Curation, Criticism from Central Saint Martins, and an M.A. degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He has taught and lectured at institutions around the world such as Central Saint Martins, FIT, NYU, and University of Copenhagen on ranging topics in art criticism, fashion and curatorial theory, and art history. Jeppe’s criticism appears regularly in Artforum, Frieze, and Spike Art Quarterly, where he serves as contributing editor. He has contributed texts to exhibition catalogs published by institutions such as MIT List Center, Pro Helvetia, the Hessel Museum of Art, and the MACRO. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Viscose, a journal for fashion criticism and analysis. Viscose has partnered with art institutions globally in pursuit of fashion research, including X Museum in Beijing and Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City. His first book, Fashion Work: 25 Years of Art in Fashion was published by Damiani in 2020. Jeppe has staged exhibitions in institutions and museums around the world, most recently co-curating the large-scale New York City public art exhibition Future Ours with Hans Ulrich Obrist, a partnership between Art2030 and the United Nations. In 2021, he curated the Talks program at Frieze London. Other exhibitions include The Cosmos Within at ARoS (Aarhus), the 2023 edition of Charlottenborg Biennale (Denmark), the two-part The Endless Garment at X Museum (Beijing), Witch-Hunt at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and Phantom Plane at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong.