Joshua Decter has been a critic, curator, and art historian since the mid-1980s. He is a contributor to Artforum, Afterall, and other periodicals, and has organized exhibitions at PS1 in New York, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Apex Art in New York, The Kunsthalle Vienna, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, among other institutions. Decter was a curatorial interlocutor for the inSite_05 San Diego/Tijuana Interventions exhibition project, and organized the conference, The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement, in collaboration with inSite San Diego/Tijuana and Creative Time, New York, presented at The Cooper Union, NY, in May 2007. Decter has been a member of the graduate faculty and graduate committee at Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, where he developed and supervised a number of curatorial practicum seminars. He has also taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, New York University, UCLA, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.