currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University; holds a BA in Art History and Queer Studies from UCLA.
research centers anti-portraiture, detritus, critical theory, and transgendered ontologies.
was a 2021-2022 post-baccalaureate fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.
wrote a culminating thesis titled “Morphological Freedom: Greer Lankton’s Abstract Works,” using Lankton’s understudied archive held in Pittsburgh’s The Mattress Factory.
email: mxhassan@stanford.edu