Walead Beshty is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in Los Angeles. Over the past twenty-five years, he has held academic positions at several universities and has had solo museum exhibitions at Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland; Barbican Centre, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and MoMA / P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City; among others. His artwork is held in collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Tate, London. A book of his collected writings, 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters: Selected Writings (2003–2015), was published in 2016.