About the Director

Joshua Decter has been a critic, curator, editor and organizer since the late 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/Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Apex Art in New York, The Kunsthalle Vienna, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, among other institutions. Decter was an advisor to the inSite (Art Practices in the Public Domain San Diego/Tijuana), and organized the 2007 conference, "The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement," in partnership with inSite, Creative Time, New York, and The Cooper Union, New York.

Decter has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues over the past 20 years, including most recently the 28th Bienal of São Paulo, Brazil in 2008, the 2008 California Biennial, ReGift at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art in New York in 2009, and Heartland at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago in 2009. Decter served on the graduate faculty at The Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College from 2003 to 2007, and has also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The School of Visual Arts in New York, UCLA, and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

• Click here for Joshua Decter's CV.
• Joshua Decter, “Art and the Cultural Contradictions of Urban Regeneration, Social Justice and Sustainability: Transforma Projects and Prospect.1 in post-Katrina New Orleans”, Afterall No. 22, Autumn/Winter 2009
• "Biennial in Your Brain" - Joshua Decter's essay for the 2008 California Biennial
• "Transitory Agencies and Situational Engagements" - Joshua Decter's essay for Interventions, inSite_05
• Announcement for "The Situational Drive," a 2007 symposium organized by Joshua Decter
• Fall 2009 Syllabus for PAS 585: Theorizing the Public Realm, taught by Joshua Decter