He is Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts department at the University of California and a leader in the international arts community. He serves as chair of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts (Los Angeles) and Advisor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. His books on art and visual culture include Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies of Visual Modernity (Allen & Unwin, 1995), Invisible Colours (Yale, 1997), Art After Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s (Routledge, 2001), Vasco Araújo (ADIAC, 2007),Guillaume Bijl (JRP|Ringier, 2016), Paul McCarthy: Caribbean Pirates (forthcoming, 2017). He is co-author of The Dada & Surrealist Word-Image (MIT, 1989), Mike Kelley (Phaidon, 1999), On the Beyond: A Conversation between Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and John C. Welchman (Springer, 2011), Kwang Young Chun (Skira Rizzoli, 2014), and Joseph Kosuth: Re-Defining the Context of Art: 1968–2014; The Second Investigation and Public Media (forthcoming, 2017); and editor of Rethinking Borders (Minnesota UP/Routledge, 1996) and Sculpture and the Vitrine (Ashgate, 2013). Past Realization: Essays on Contemporary European Art [XX to XXI vol. I] was published by Sternberg earlier this year, the first of a series of six volumes of his collected writings.