Matthew S. Witkovsky is Vice President for Strategic Art Initiatives and Sandor Chair and Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. His articles and essays on African and diasporic photography, conceptual art, European modernism and artists from Robert Gober to Sanlé Sory have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Art Bulletin and numerous exhibition catalogues over the past 20 years. He has authored more than fifteen books and organized important survey exhibitions including Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1948 (2007), Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph (2011), Provoke: Japanese Photography Between Protest and Performance (2016) and Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test (2017). Together with Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew and Elvira Dyangani Ose, he is co-organizer of Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica.