About the Author

Eric Shiner is the senior vice president of contemporary art at Sotheby's. Previously, he served as director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh from 2010 to 2016 and was the museum's Milton Fine Curator of Art from 2008 to 2010. A leading scholar of Andy Warhol and contemporary Asian art, he lived and worked in Japan. for a total of six years and was assistant curator of the first Yokohama Triennial in 2001. Shiner has organized dozens of contemporary art exhibitions in cities around the world and was the team leader of the major retrospective Warhol from the Warhol Museum, which traveled to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo between 2012 and 2014. Notable exhibitions include Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei in 2015/16, Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After in 2012, and Armory Focus: USA at the Armory Show in 2013.

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