Charles Green

Charles Green is Professor of Contemporary Art in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Author of Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94 (Craftsman House, 1996) and The Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Conceptualism to Postmodernism (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), he recently completed a history of biennials in contemporary art, Biennials, Triennials and Documenta: Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art, 1955-2015 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), with Associate Professor Anthony Gardner (Oxford University), assisted by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. Lyndell Brown and Charles Green have worked in collaboration as one artist since 1989. In 2007, they were Australia’s Official War Artists, deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and in 2014 published a book (Framing Conflict: Contemporary War and Aftermath, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014).