Flora Brandl received her M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2019, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. She went on to pursue a Ph.D. in Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she specializes in contemporary African art and global art history.

Before moving to New York, Flora earned an M.A. in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a B.A. from University College London. She has taught courses in art history at Hunter College and in performance art at The Cooper Union, and currently serves as the Senior Doctoral Fellow in the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies.

From 2022 to 2024, she was a Graduate Fellow in the traveling seminar series “Linking Art Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe from the Cold War to the Present”, jointly funded by the Getty Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Flora is currently an Editorial Associate at MoMA, where she is working on a forthcoming book on modern African art for MoMA’s Primary Documents series.