Nayland Blake is an artist, instigator, writer, and educator, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His work is included in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Berkeley Art Museum; and de Young Museum, San Francisco. His writing has appeared in Interview Magazine, Artforum, Out, and Out/Look. In 1994, Blake co-curated, with Lawrence Rinder, In a Different Light at the Berkeley Art Museum, the first major museum exhibition to examine the impact of queer artists on contemporary art. He is currently the chair of the ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies at the International Center of Photography. He was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship.