DARLA

---

Darla Migan, Ph.D. is a philosopher, an art critic, and a curator of artist-led collaborations. She is passionate  about  exhibition-making and understands the curatorial lens as a way to do  philosophy with everyone. Overall,  she yearns for  our critical enlightenment  toward the liberation of all.

Dr. Migan is based in New York City and currently holds the inaugural PRODIG+ Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Philosophy at (SUNY) Stony Brook University.  She enjoys teaching artists and scientists in courses such as PHI:104 Moral Reasoning, PHI 264: Philosophy and the Arts, and PHI 501: Theories of Race. As a 2026 Scholar-in-Residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Governors Island she curates  with Experimental School for Black Imagination co-organizer artist Zella Vanié.

Prior to joining SBU Dr. Migan taught at The New School for Social Research. She is a recipient of the Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2021-22), The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2021), and the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Prize (2023) for her contributions to the field of arts journalism.