Kelly Montana is the Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute, Houston. Recently curated projects include Hanne Darboven – Writing Time; Si Lewen: The Parade; Brice Marden: Think of Them As Spaces; and Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s (co-curated with Erica DiBenedetto). Additionally, she has curated site-specific commissions with Marc Bauer and Marcia Kure as part of the Menil’s Wall Drawing Series.

Raphael Rubinstein’s most recent book is Negative Work: The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). Other publications include The Miraculous (Paper Monument, 2014), A Geniza (Granary Books, 2015) and monographs on Shirley Jaffe (Flammarion, 2014) and Guillermo Kuitca (Lund Humphries, 2020). Curatorial projects include Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s (Cheim & Read, 2013) and Under Erasure (co-curated with Heather Bause Rubinstein, at Pierogi, 2018-19) His poems have appeared in several anthologies including Best American Poetry 2015. A contributing editor of Art in America and an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail, he is also Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art.