Avram Finkelstein is an artist and writer, a founding member of the political collective Silence=Death, and a member of the art collective Gran Fury. Finkelstein has worked on public projects and campaigns for The Whitney, The New Museum and The Public Art Fund. He is a contributing writer for Artwrit and Critical Mob, has been featured in ArtForum, The New York Times, and Interview, has show at The Cooper Hewitt, Exit Art, Sue Scott Gallery and Monya Rowe Gallery, and is in the permanent collection of The New Museum and the MoMA and Smithsonian archives. Finkelstein has spoken about art and the public sphere at Harvard, Fordham, RISD, MassArt, CUNY, SVA and NYU.