Atteqa Ali is an art historian and writer based in Lahore. She is the officiating Head of the Communication and Cultural Studies Department at the National College of Arts. Her forthcoming book investigates the rise of Pakistani art that addresses sociopolitical concerns.
Monica Amor holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is currently completing a book entitled Theories of the Non-Object: The Postwar Crisis of Geometric Abstraction.
Ayreen Anastas is an artist living in Brooklyn.
Jean-Philippe Antoine is Professor of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Theory at Paris 8 University. His research bears on images and the social construction of memory, as well as modern definitions of art. He has recently published La traversée du XXe siècle. Joseph Beuys, l’image et le souvenir (2011).
Ina Blom is a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, specializing in modernism/avant-garde art, contemporary art, and media aesthetics. She is the author of On the Style Site: Art, Sociality, and Media Culture (2007).
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009).
Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and critic based in Berlin and Vienna. She is a Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her publications include: Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion- Technologie-Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica (2007) and a forthcoming monograph on Hélio Oiticica (with M. Hinderer-Cruz).
Johanna Burton is an art historian and critic based in New York City. She is the Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
T. J. Demos teaches in the Art History Department at University College London. He writes widely on modern and contemporary art, and is currently completing two books: The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art.
Anne Ellegood is the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum. Recent exhibitions include the Hammer’s first biennial of Los Angeles-based artists, Made in L.A., the group show All of this and nothing, and Hammer Projects with Shannon Ebner and Sara VanDerBeek. Ellegood served as the Curator for Hany Armanious’s 2011 Australian Pavilion in the Venice Biennale.
Rene Gabri is an artist living in New York.
Liam Gillick is an artist based in London and New York. He has exhibited widely, and represented Germany for the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. His numerous writings, which include Proxemics: Selected Writings 1988–2006 (2006) and a critical reader titled Meaning Liam Gillick (2009), function in parallel to his artwork.
Massimiliano Gioni is Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions at the New Museum. He is the Curator of the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). Among the many exhibitions he has either curated or co-curated are the 2010 Gwangju Biennial, the 4th Berlin Biennale, and Manifesta 5.
Andrea Giunta is an art historian, curator, and Professor of Latin American Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is Endowed Chair in Latin American Art History and Criticism and the Director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies. She received her PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tim Griffin is Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen, New York. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Artforum from 2003 to 2010. His book of essays, Compression, dealing with shifts in the terms for site-specificity in contemporary art, is forthcoming.
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy works with visual artists in conceptualizing meetings points—whether these take the form and space of exhibitions, events, or printed matter—for audiences to experience art unconventionally. Sofia is Curator at the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, develops projects independently, and writes regularly in www.sideshows.org.
Caroline A. Jones is Professor of Art History and Director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program at MIT. Editor of Sensorium (2006), author of Eyesight Alone (2005/8), Machine in the Studio (1996/8), and other works, her next book is titled Desires for the World Picture: The Global Work of Art.
David Joselit is Carnegie Professor in the History of Art Department at Yale University. His books include Feedback: Television against Democracy (2007) and After Art (2012).
Geeta Kapur is a critic and curator from Delhi. Her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978), When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (2000), Ends and Means: Critical Inscriptions in Contemporary Art (forthcoming). She co-curated “Bombay/Mumbai” for Century City, Tate Modern (2001). The founder-editor of the Journal of Arts and Ideas, she is also an advisory editor for Third Text and Marg. She has lectured and held fellowships worldwide.
Joan Kee is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. A specialist in modern and contemporary art with interests in East and Southeast Asia, her latest book is entitled Methods: Tansaekhwa and Contemporary Korean Art.
Sylvia Kouvali lives in Istanbul, Turkey, where she runs Rodeo Gallery.
Michelle Kuo is the Editor in Chief of Artforum. She is a regular contributor to publications including October and The Art Bulletin, and most recently published the catalogue essay for the exhibition “Otto Piene: Lichtballett” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Michelle is also a PhD candidate at Harvard University in history of art and architecture; her dissertation concerns the organization Experiments in Art and Technology.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty is an art historian at Harvard University, where she received the Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She is the author of Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (2008).
Pi Li is a critic, curator, and gallerist based in Beijing.
Maria Lind is a curator and critic based in Stockholm, and currently the Director of Tensta konsthall. She previously was the Director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Director of Iaspis in Stockholm and Kunstverein München. She received the 2009 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement and her book, Selected Maria Lind Writing, was published in 2010.
Our Literal Speed is an ongoing media opera/textual archive based in Selma, Alabama. Since 2006, the project has been presented as a series of events in the vicinity of art and history in Europe and North America.
Sven Lütticken teaches art history at VU University Amsterdam. He regularly publishes on contemporary art and is the author of the books Secret Publicity: Essays on Contemporary Art (2006), Idols of the Market: Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle (2009), and History in Motion (2012).
Chika Okeke-Agulu, a curator, critic, and art historian, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology and Center for African American Studies, Princeton University. His books include Contemporary African Art since 1980 (2009), and Who Knows Tomorrow (2010). He is co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.
Mihai Pop is a visual artist and Coordinator of Galeria Plan B in Cluj, Romania, and Berlin. He commissioned the Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, and co-curated the Staging the Grey exhibition for Prague Biennale 4 in 2009. He is an initiator of the Fabrica de Pensule / The Paintbrush Factory in Cluj, Romania, a collective independent cultural center opened in 2009.
Raqs Media Collective was founded in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Based in New Delhi, Raqs remains closely involved with the Sarai program at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (www.sarai.net), an initiative they co-founded in 2000.
Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of Art and Design in Offenbach am Main, Germany. Recent publications include: Aesthetics of Installation Art (2012); Kreation und Depression: Freiheit im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus (co-edited with Christoph Menke, 2010); and Die Kunst der Freiheit: Zur Dialektik demokratischer Existenz (2012).
Lane Relyea is Associate Professor and Chair of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University and editor of Art Journal. He has written widely on contemporary art since 1983, and his book on the effects of networks on artistic practice and its contexts is forthcoming.
João Ribas is Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was previously Curator at The Drawing Center in New York. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, and he is the recipient of four consecutive AICA Awards (2008–11) and an Emily Hall Tremaine Award (2010).
Andrea Rosen opened her gallery in 1990 with an inaugural exhibition of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The gallery is known for discovering new artists as well as developing the career of emerging and established artists. The gallery also has an ongoing reputation for mounting significant historical exhibitions. Rosen was born in Canada and worked in numerous galleries, including Diane Brown Gallery and Daniel Newburg Gallery.
Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. He is the author of Doubt (2008) and Between Sense and de Kooning (2011).
Katy Siegel is a Professor of Art History at Hunter College, The City University of New York and contributing editor to Artforum. She was the Curator of High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, and her books include Since ′45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art (2011) and Abstract Expressionism (2011).
Irene V. Small is Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. She has contributed to journals including Artforum, Third Text, and RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. Her forthcoming book, Hélio Oiticica: Folding the Frame, examines the emergence of a participatory art paradigm in mid-1960s Brazil.
Frank Smigiel is Associate Curator of Public Programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he designs and implements live events from artists’ talks and public projects to visual arts-based performance and film. His curatorial and research interests include the intersection of theatrical and live art forms, commerce by artists, and information/knowledge-based art projects. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute and holds a doctorate in English Literature.
Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, is the 2010 Australia Council Visual Arts Laureate, and winner of the CAA’s Mather Award for Art Criticism.
Julian Stallabrass is a writer, curator, photographer, and lecturer. He is Professor in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and is the author of Art Incorporated (2004). He curated the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial, “Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images.”
Olav Velthuis is Associate Professor in Cultural and Economic Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of, among others, Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art (2005), and has published on art markets in Artforum, the Art Newspaper, and the Financial Times.
Jan Verwoert is a critic whose writing has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and monographs. He teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, the de Appel curatorial program, the Ha’Midrasha School of Art, Tel Aviv, and Bergen Academy of Art. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous (2006) and Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want (2010).
Anton Vidokle is an artist and co-founder of e-flux and time/bank.
Terri Weissman’s book, The Realisms of Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photography and Political Action (2011), examines the politics of Berenice Abbott’s realist, communicatively oriented model of documentary photography. She has also co-curated (with Jessica May and Sharon Corwin) an exhibition titled American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White.
Pauline J. Yao is an independent curator and scholar based in Beijing, where she co-founded the nonprofit art space Arrow Factory in 2008. She is the author of In Production Mode: Contemporary Art in China (2008), and co-edited 3 Years: Arrow Factory (2011).
Tirdad Zolghadr is a writer and curator who teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.