I have B.A. and M.Phil degrees in art history from C.U.N.Y and am completing my Ph.D. from the same institution. I have also studied at Vassar College, Columbia University, Institute of Fine Arts, Univeristé Laval, Quebec, as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Apart from my teaching and scholarship, I am an independent curator and art critic and a corresponding editor for Art Nexus, Miami/Bogota; correspondent for Flash Art, Milan; and a contributor to Contemporary, London. Apart from teaching at John Jay College, I have been a visiting curator/critic at Ewha University, Seoul, South Korea; Samszie Space, Seoul, South Korea; Royal College of Art, London, UK; University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland; FRAME, Helsinki, Finland; the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada, Museo de arte contemporaneo, Oaxaca, and Galeria Quetzalli, Oaxaca, Mexico. I have published over 150 articles on contemporary art in books, museum and gallery exhibition catalogs as well as in journals and magazines including TRANS, Zingmagazine, Estilo, Journal of the West, Tema Celeste, Art/Culture Seoul, Bridge, [Art Notes], Framework: the Finnish Art Review, and the L.A. Times. I am also the host of the talk show Art after Dark, which was recently launched at the DIVA Digital and Video Art Fair in NYC and is produced by the Artist Network, NYC. Taped segments are being edited in Germany which will then be pitched to the European TV channel Arte in 2007.