Robert Indiana

Simon Salama-Caro is the author of The Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné and a longtime steward of Robert Indiana’s work. Beginning his collaboration with the artist in the late 1980s, he became Indiana’s exclusive representative in 1995. In addition to overseeing one of the artist’s most ambitious sculpture programs, he worked with Indiana on several major exhibitions and publications. In 2022, Salama-Caro founded The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, which is the leading entity dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the late artist’s work. Emeline Salama-Caro is the Managing Director of the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, advancing appreciation for and recognition of the artistic legacy of Robert Indiana. She also serves as Project Director for The Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné, which was published online in 2023. Prior to her current role she worked at Christie’s, New York in Post-War & Contemporary Art and received her Master’s in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute in London. Richard Meyer is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, where he teaches modern art, curatorial history and practice, censorship, and gender and sexuality studies. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, which won an award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and What Was Contemporary Art? With Peggy Phelan, he co-edited Contact Warhol: Photography Without End and co-organized the accompanying exhibition. With Catherine Lord, he cowrote Art and Queer Culture, a survey of art and alternative sexualities since 1885. His most recent award-winning book, Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered , accompanied the traveling retrospective Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered, which was curated by Meyer. Prudence Peiffer , an art historian, writer, and editor who specializes in modern and contemporary art, is Director of Content at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She received her PhD from Harvard University and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Artforum, and Bookforum. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever, about the Coenties Slip artists in 1950s and 1960s Manhattan, won the New York City Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has received fellowships from Radcliffe and MacDowell and an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant.   Robert Pincus-Witten (1935–2018) was an art historian, educator, critic, and curator in New York. Recognized for coining the term 'postminimalism,' he played a central role in explicating postmodern art as it emerged between 1960 and his death in 2018. He received a Master of Fine Arts and PhD from the University of Chicago. In addition to his teaching career at the City University of New York, he wrote for Artforum for fifty years. He curated exhibitions at the Gagosian Gallery and directed exhibitions at C&M Arts (now Mnuchin Gallery). He also wrote several books, including Postminimalism, Eye to Eye: Twenty Years of Art Criticism, and Postminimalism into Maximalism: American Art, 1966–1986.