Paul Goodwin is a curator, researcher and urban theorist based in London. Goodwin’s research and curatorial interests span the fields of transnational art, urbanism and curatorial practice with a focus on African diaspora art and visual cultures. He is the Co-Lead Investigator for a Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform. At a time when global instability and populist nationalisms threaten public cultures worldwide the project explores the potential for pedagogical and curatorial innovation with an international consortium of universities and museums including University of the Arts London, Carleton, Concordia, Heidelberg and Amsterdam Universities and Tate Modern, Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, National Gallery of Canada and State Museums Dresden. Goodwin’s recent curatorial projects include: W.E.B. DuBois: Charting Black Lives (House of Illustration, London, UK, Nov. 2019), We Will Walk: Art and Resistance from the American South (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, Feb. 2020) and Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, Chapter 2 (touring, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, May 2020) and Ben Jones: The Bigger Picture (198 Gallery, London, Sept 2022). Goodwin is Professor of Contemporary Art & Urbanism and Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity & Nation (TrAIN) at University of the Arts London.