Alex Ungprateeb Flynn

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn is Associate Professor of Art and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Informed by ethnographic and curatorial inquiry, his research explores prefiguration, diasporic identities, and utopia. He is the author of Pathways to Utopia (Indiana University Press, 2025) and Taking Form, Making Worlds (University of Texas Press, 2022), and editor of Unmaking to Make (UCL Press, 2026). An anthropologist, curator, and art theorist, his exhibitions include Construction, Occupation (Fowler Museum, 2025), Cartoneras: Re-leituras Latino-Americanas (Casa do Povo, 2019), and Concrete Mirror (EHESS, Paris, 2017). For his work at São Paulo’s Cambridge Artistic Residency, he received Brazil’s prestigious APCA Trophy for curatorial practice.