Nizan Shaked’s Art Against the System will examine how individuals and collectives use art to intervene in state structures and legal frameworks by analyzing aesthetics, manipulating forms, and applying strategies for change on a social scale.
Nizan Shaked is professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at California State University Long Beach. She is the author of The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, 2017) and Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Her writing has also appeared in the Oxford Art Journal and in the edited collections Routledge Companion to African American Art History (2019) and Adrian Piper: A Reader (MoMA, 2018).