Jan Tumlir is an author based in Los Angeles. He is a founding editor of local art journal X-TRA and a longtime regular contributor to Artforum and Frieze magazines. More recently, he has joined the editorial team at Effects, a London-based journal devoted to “aesthetics in the shadows of the contemporary.” Tumlir has written extensively on such artists as Bas Jan Ader, Uta Barth, John Divola, Cyprien Gaillard, Allen Ruppersberg and James Welling. His books include: LA Artland: Contemporary Art From Los Angeles (Black Dog Publishing, 2005), co-written with Chris Kraus and Jane McFadden; Hyenas Are… (Mousse Magazine, 2011), a monograph on the work of Matthew Brannon; The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records (Onomatopee, 2015); and Conversations, produced in discussion with Jorge Pardo (Inventory Press, 2021). A book-length study of the role of gesture in painting is forthcoming. Tumlir has served as a faculty member of the fine art and humanities and sciences departments at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., since 1999. In 2022, he joined the faculty of Southern California Institute of Architecture as resident art historian.

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