Mark Nash (film historian)

Mark Nash is an independent curator, film historian, and filmmaker with a specialisation in contemporary avant-garde and world cinema. He is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his partner and long-time collaborator, Isaac Julien. He has a PhD from Middlesex University and an MA from Cambridge University.

He is the author of Screen Theory Culture (Language, Discourse, Society). He was co-curator of Documenta 11 (2002) and film curator of the Berlin Biennial (2004). He curated Experiments with Truth (Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 2004-5). He is a former editor of Screen.