Paul Gladston is the inaugural Judith Neilson Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales. He was previously Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham and, between 2005 and 2010, the inaugural Head of the School of International Communications and Director of the Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.

Paul has written extensively about contemporary art in and from the People’s Republic of China with particular reference to the concerns of critical theory. Over the last decade he has impacted significantly on the development of a critically-informed Contemporary Chinese Art Studies, both internationally and inside China. His book-length publications include Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History (2014), which received ‘publication of the year’ at the Awards of Art China 2015. His forthcoming monograph Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity, which has received widespread pre-publication critical acclaim, will be published by Bloomsbury in October 2019.

He was founding principal editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art from 2014 to 2017 https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-chinese-art and an academic adviser to the internationally acclaimed exhibition Art of Change: New Directions from China which was staged at the Hayward Gallery-South Bank Centre London in 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Art-Change-New-Directions-China/dp/1853323039

Recent Book-length publications

Paul Gladston, Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity - Bloomsbury Academic (literature and Philosophy) ‘Aesthetics and Contemporary Art’ series, David Carrier and Tiziana Adina eds. (London: Bloomsbury, 2019) ISBN-10: 1350041971 ISBN-13: 978-1350041974 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporary-chinese-art-aesthetic-modernity-and-zhang-peili-9781350041974/

Paul Gladston, Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art: Selected Critical Writings and Conversations, 2007-2014 (Heidelberg-Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2016) ISBN 13: 978-3-662-46487-8. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783662464878

Paul Gladston, Yu Youhan (Shanghai: 3030 Press and ShanghArt Gallery, 2015) ISBN 13: 978-988-99384-9-9 http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c75e23781b5f53e27841d0bf9&id=9b93d0567a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I_6yzDutsk“

Paul Gladston, Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History (London: Reaktion and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014) ISBN 13: 978-1-78023-269-0 http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/browse/article_detail/how_critical_is_contemporary_chinese_art ‘Publication of the Year’ at the Art Awards China 2015 http://www.aacaward.com/en/index.html

Paul Gladston, ‘Avant-garde’ Art Groups in China, 1979-1989 (Bristol: Intellect and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013) ISBN 13: 978-1-84150-715-6 https://www.intellectbooks.com/avant-garde-art-groups-in-china-1979-1989

Paul Gladston, Contemporary Art in Shanghai: Conversations with Seven Chinese Artists (Hong Kong: Blue Kingfisher/Timezone 8, 2011) ISBN 13: 978-988-15063-7 https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Contemporary_Art_in_Shanghai.html?id=4kenpwAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y