Michael AsburyMichael Asbury is a London-based art historian, art critic, and curator. He is Reader of Art History and Theory at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL) and founding member of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Ientity and Nation (TrAIN). Over the last twenty years he has written extensively on themes involving modern and contemporary art with a particular emphasis on Brazilian culture. His work has been published internationally by Americas Society, Art in America, Astrup Fearnley, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Cosac Naify, Documenta Kassel (12), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Flash Art, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Liverpool University Press, MIT Press, Perspectiva, Rodopi, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Tate Publishing, Third Text, Turner Contemporary, and Wilhelm/Fink, among others. He has curated a number of exhibitions on artists such as Alfredo Volpi, Anna Maria Maiolino, Antonio Manuel, Cao Guimaraes, Cildo Meireles, Detanico and Lain, Ibere Camargo, Jose Oiticica Filho, José Patricio, and Rosangela Rennó as well as on themes such as Brazilian photography and architecture, concrete and neoconcrete art, and the monochrome in contemporary art. Read More Read Less