Rattanamol Singh Johal

Rattanamol Singh Johal is an art historian and curator. He is the former Assistant Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art. He has held fellowships at The Museum of Modern Art, Tate Research Centre: Asia (now Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational), and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Previously, he worked as a curator, archivist, and publications editor at Khoj International Artists’ Association in New Delhi. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, completing a dissertation that offers an account of postmodern art practices emerging in metropolitan India during the eighties and nineties. Rattan earned a BA (summa cum laude) in Art History & Political Science from the CUNY Macaulay Honors College, an MA (with Distinction) from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and an MA and MPhil from Columbia University.

Contributions

Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

post Presents: Unsettled Dust—Archives, Epistemologies, Images

These presentations and panel discussion at MoMA brought together four filmmakers and artists who work in expanded documentary modes, using existing footage, archival research, interviews, and scripted narratives to produce imaginative accounts of transnational struggles, solidarities, and interventions. Using moving images, some of these practitioners interrogate the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements of the mid-late 20th…

West Asia | One Work, Many Voices

Mediality and Memory: Akram Zaatari’s Letter to a Refusing Pilot

What is historicized, how is it recorded, and who determines and controls these seemingly unyielding criteria? Invoking multiple media apparatuses and deriving its title from a rumor, Akram Zaatari’s Letter to a Refusing Pilot (2013) undercuts the hegemonic and umbilical ties of media and history.