Monique Long is an independent curator and writer based in New York City. Her work focuses on themes related to race, identity, gender, class, and systems of power that are grounded in history, literature, and politics. Long is also a critic who has contributed essays and interviews on fashion and contemporary art to publications widely. Her traveling exhibition, Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art, opened at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco in March 2022. The show is currently on view at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia through February 2023.

Long joined the adjunct faculty at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2021.