John C. Welchman is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of California. He has collaborated in various exhibitions at the Tate Modern, Musée du Louvre, Reina Sofía, LA County Museum of Art, Stedelijk, MOCA, LA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Albertina or the Edinburgh Festival. Author of numerous articles for, among others, "Artforum", "Frieze", "Art Bulletin", "Screen", "New York Times", "International Herald Tribune" and "The Economist", his books include "Paul McCarthy: Caribbean Pirates" (2014), "Vasco Araújo" (2006), "Art After Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s" (2001), "Mike Kelley" (1999), "Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles " (1997), "Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies of Visual Modernity" (1995) and "The Dada and Surrealist Word Image" (1987), to which should be added as editor "Sculpture and the Vitrine2 (2013), " Black Sphinx: On the Comedic in Modern Art" (2010), "The Aesthetics of Risk" (2008), "Institutional Critique and After" (2006), "Recent Pasts: Art in Southern California from the 90s to Now" (2005 ), "Rethinking Borders" (1996), and Mike Kelley's writings "Foul Perfection" (2003), "Minor Histories" (2004), and "Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-Chat" (2005).