Maria Lind, Faculty at Large, is director of the Konstmuseet i Norr in Kiruna, Sweden. She was previously the Counsellor of Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden, Moscow. She served as the director of Stockholm’s Tensta konsthall (2011-18), the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2008-2010), and director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007). From 2002-2004, she was the director of Kunstverein München. In 1998, Lind was co-curator of Europe’s itinerant biennial, Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg. In 2015, she curated Future Light for the first Vienna Biennial, and in 2019 she co-curated the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara. She has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as a professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo 2015-18. She has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and other publications. She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In 2010, Selected Maria Lind Writings was published by Sternberg Press, and Seven Years: The Rematerialization Art from 2011 to 2017 appeared in the fall of 2019.