Grant Kester
Professor of Art History, University of California San Diego, USA
Supervising Discipline: Arts Theory
Research Field: Contemporary Art, Modern Art, Socially Engaged Art, Public Art
Grant Kester holds a BFA in Photography from Maryland Institute, College of Art, an MA in Art History from University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the same school. In addition to being a professor of Art History, he also is a founding editor of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism.
Professor Kester is one of the leading figures in the critical dialogue around socially engaged art practice. His publications include Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage (1998), Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art (2004),The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context (2011). His essays have been published in Art in Theory: The West in the World -- An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Wiley/Blackwell, 2020), A Companion to Public Art (2016), etc.
格兰特凯斯特
美国加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校艺术史教授
博导专业：艺术学理论
研究领域：当代艺术、现代艺术、社会参与艺术、公共艺术
格兰特凯斯特本科毕业于马里兰艺术学院的摄影系，硕士毕业于罗切斯特大学的艺术史专业并拥有该学校视觉与文化研究专业的博士学位。除了是艺术史教授，他同时也是FIELD（社会参与的艺术评论杂志）的创始编辑。
凯斯特教授是围绕社会参与的艺术实践进行批判性对话的主要人物之一。他的出版物包括《艺术、激进主义与对立：来自<后像>的随笔》（1998）、《对话篇：现代艺术中的共同体与传播》（2004）和《一个和多个：全球背景下的当代合作艺术》（2011）。他的论文发表在《理论艺术：世界中的西方-观念转变选集》（2020），《公共艺术同盟》（2016）等期刊上。
