Mark Van Proyen is associate professor in the Painting department and in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is an artist and critic whose visual work has been exhibited widely. He is a columnist and critic for Artweek, a contributing editor for Art in America, and has contributed writing to Art Issues, and Bad Subjects. Art Criticism dedicated an entire volume to his Administrativism and Its Discontents (Volume 21, Number 2) 2006, published by the Department of Art, State University of
New York at Stony Brook.