Jeppe Ugelvig

Jeppe Ugelvig is a curator, historian, and critic based in New York City. A specialist in the history of art’s intermingling with fashion and consumer culture, he is the author of two books: Fashion Work (2020) and Commodity Ecumene (2024) and numerous articles. He is a current Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz, where his research focuses on artistic responses to consumerism in the global 20th century. As a curator, Jeppe has organized more than a dozen exhibitions in institutions and museums around the world. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Viscose, a journal for fashion criticism and analysis. Viscose has partnered with art institutions globally in pursuit of fashion research, including X Museum in Beijing and Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City.