Ming Tiampo is Professor of Art History and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University. A specialist in transnational modernisms, she is interested in the histories of our globally entangled present. Tiampo's major publications and curatorial projects include Gutai: Decentering Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Gutai: Splendid Playground, co-curated at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2013).