Julia Bryan-Wilson is the Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley. With Andrea Andersson, she curated the travelling exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen (2017-2019), and she is the author of Fray: Art and Textile Politics (2017), winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award, the Robert Motherwell Book Award, and the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize.