Discussant at Large

John Clark is Professor Emeritus in Art History at the University of Sydney, the author of five books, and editor or co-editor of another five, which include Asian Modernities: Chinese and Thai art of the 1980s and 1990s (Power Publications, 2010), a pioneering work in cross-disciplinary inter-Asian comparison of modern art and art worlds that won the Best Art Book Prize of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand in 2011. His Contemporary Asian Art at Biennials is forthcoming from National University of Singapore Press in mid-2017. Also active as a curator, he co-curated Modern Boy, Modern Girl: Modernity in Japanese Art, 1910-1935 (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998), and the major catalogue and exhibition of the work of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Art Gallery, University of Sydney, 2014).