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Melissa Gronlund is a writer based in London. Her writings on contemporary art have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The National, The Art Newspaper, Artforum, Art Agenda, and Afterall journal, among other places. She is the author of Contemporary Art and Digital Culture (Routledge, 2016), the editor of Art of the Emirates II, and managing editor of Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives (both ADMAF, 2022), and Reference Point: A History of Tashkeel and UAE Art (Tashkeel, 2018). She has contributed to many catalogues by institutions include Tate, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the London ICA, and the Witte de With in Rotterdam. From 2007- 2014 she lectured on contemporary art at Oxford University, the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, and on the Moving Image MA run by Central Saint Martins and LUX. Originally from New York City, she studied Comparative Literature at Princeton University and Film Aesthetics at Oxford University.