Grant Kester es Profesor de Historia del Arte en el Departamento de Artes Visuales en la Universidad de California, San Diego, y es el Editor fundador de FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism. Sus publicaciones incluyen Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage (Duke University Press, 1998), Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art (University of California Press, 2004), The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context (Duke University Press, 2011) y Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995–2010, co-editado con Bill Kelley (Duke University Press, 2017). Su libro más reciente es Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art.