Homer Charles Arnold is a scholar of modern and contemporary art history and theory with a focus on experimental and interdisciplinary practices after 1960. His research interests include conceptual art, performance, intersections between sound art and visual art, twentieth-century avant-gardes, sensorial aesthetics, materiality and ephemerality, emergent globalism of the 1960s and 1970s, and vanguard exhibition practices. Arnold is the archive manager for the Michael Brewster Trust and the President of the Graduate Student Art History Association at the University of California, Riverside.
Arnold is the author of Locating a New Sonic Materialism: Michael Brewster and a Full-Bodied Sound, In Flux, BAIK art, 2021 and Radical Formalism, Michael Brewster’s collective-materialism, Michael Brewster: Frequency, BAIK Art, 2019
Arnold’s essays and criticism have been published in The Austin Chronicle, Glasstire, and Art and Cake.