James Meyer is Winship Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he has been teaching since 1994. He is a noted specialist and lecturer in minimalism, in American art of the 1960s, and in contemporary forms of institutional critique. Meyer has written extensively on minimalist artists. Publications include Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960s (2001) and essays in Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible, 1966–1973 (1995); Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture for a Large Wall, 1957 (1998); Eva Hesse: A Retrospective (2002); Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth, Practice (2004); and A Minimal Future (2004). He is the editor of Carl André’s Cuts = Texts, 1999–2004 (2005), and has contributed to such journals as Artforum, Art Magazine, Flash Art, and Parkett.
