Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. He has held Visiting International Chairs at the University of Paris 8, the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm, and Yale University School of Art. He was an editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy from 1983 to 2016. His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011),Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (2013) and The Postconceptual Condition (2018). He was contributed catalogue essays for Manifesta 5, Tate Modern, Biennale of Sydney, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo, CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León and Reina Sofía, Madrid. He was co-curator of the Norwegian Representation at the Venice Biennale 2011 and keynote speaker at the 2^nd World Biennial Forum, Sao Paulo, 2014, Making Biennials in Contemporary Times.