Artist Sandrine Schaefer's studio during the Banff Research in Culture residency, 2017.

The Visual Arts Lecture Series presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators and academics. Join John Tain, guest faculty for the Banff Artist in Residence Fall program, for this talk.

John Tain is Head of Research at the Asia Art Archives, where he leads a team of researchers based in Hong Kong, Delhi, and Shanghai, with projects spanning all of Asia.  Previously, he was a curator for modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, where he worked on projects related to artists Ed Ruscha, Allan Sekula, Faith Wilding, Tetsumi Kudo, and others.  His writings on Rirkrit Tiravanija, Wu Tsang, Charles Gaines and Kara Walker, among others have appeared in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Art Review Asia, and in various exhibition catalogues, and he is a series editor for Afterall Exhibition Histories.  His exhibition, co-curated with Jasmine Alinder, Someday, Chicago, on the Japanese-American photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto, opens September at the DePaul Art Museum as part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s initiative, Art Design Chicago.