Michael Newman is Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths. He has written books on
Richard Prince, Jeff Wall and Seth Price, and co-edited Rewriting Conceptual Art (1999)
and The State of Art Criticism (2007). He has published numerous essays on modern and
contemporary artists, as well as thematic essays on the wound, the horizon, contingency,
memory, the trace of drawing and nonsense. The first volume of his selected writings, ‘I
know very well…but all the same’: Essays on Artists of the Still and Moving Image is
forthcoming with Ridinghouse in 2015. During Autumn 2014 he was co-curator of
Revolver2 at Matt’s Gallery, London.