Thomas Lawson is Scottish-born artist and writer who interrogates the role of art in contemporary life. He has been showing paintings and temporary public works internationally since the late 1970s. His essays have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, frieze, and October, as well as in numerous exhibition catalogues for museums around the world. From 1979 until 1992, he and writer Susan Morgan published and edited REALLIFE Magazine, an irregular publication by and about younger artists interested in the relationship between art and life. From 2002 until 2009 he was U.S. editor of Afterall, an international art journal then co-published by Central Saint Martins College of Art, London, and the Art School at CalArts, where he served as dean from 1991-2022. In 2010 he launched EastofBorneo, an online journal and collaborative archive dedicated to a consideration of art and its history from the Los Angeles region.

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