Claire Bishop is an art critic and Presidential Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012, which won the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism), a book of conversations with the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (Cisneros, 2020), Merce Cunningham’s Events: Key Concepts (Koenig, 2024), and Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Verso, 2024), which was shortlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a a Contributing Editor of Artforum, a Guggenheim Fellow (2024), and her essays and books have been translated into twenty languages.