Serge Guilbaut is a professor of art history at the University of British Columbia. He received his PhD in Art History from UCLA in 1979. His books include How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art (University of Chicago Press), Voir, Ne pas Voir, Faut Voir (Chambon, France), Sobre la desaparición de ciertas obras de arte (Curare/Fonca, Mexico), and Los Espejismos de la imagen en los lindes del siglo XXI (Akal Ediciones, Spain). He lives in Vancouver.