Paul Chan is an artist, writer, and publisher who lives in New York. “Breathers”, a travelling survey exhibition of his recent practice organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, was mounted in 2022-2024. His work has been featured in many international group exhibitions, such as Documenta 13, the 53rd Venice Biennale, and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. In 2007, Chan collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and the New York based public art group Creative Time to produce a site-specific outdoor presentation of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina. Chan founded Badlands Unlimited (2010-2018), a press devoted to publishing artist writings and writings about art in paper and digital forms. Badlands authors include Marcel Duchamp, Yvonne Rainer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Craig Owens, Carroll Dunham, Lynne Tillman, Martine Syms, Dread Scott, Aruna D’Souza, among many others. Chan is the winner of the Hugo Boss Prize in 2014, a biennial award honoring artists who have made a visionary contribution to contemporary art. He was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2022.