Christian Viveros-Fauné (Santiago, Chile, 1965) has worked as a gallerist, art fair director, art critic, and curator since 1994. He was awarded the University of South Florida’s Kennedy Family Visiting Fellowship in 2018, a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Grant in 2009 and named Critic in Residence at the Bronx Museum in 2011. He co-founded The Brooklyn Rail in 1999, wrote art criticism for the Village Voice from 2008 to 2016, was the Art and Culture Critic for artnet news from 2016 to 2018, and has additionally served as Chief Critic for Artland and Sotheby’s in other words. He has lectured widely at institutions such as Yale University, Pratt University and Holland’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and curated exhibitions at leading museums in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. He currently serves as Curator-at-Large at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum and writes for the Village Voice. He was the Guest Curator of the 2023 Converge 45 biennial (Portland, Oregon), 2023 Ekhard Scholar-in-Residence at Bucknell University and was recently named Guest Curator for the upcoming 2026 reopening of the Bronx Museum. He has edited and/or contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs and is also the author of several books. His most recent, Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, was published by David Zwirner Books in 2019.