Anthony Shelton BA (Hull), M.Litt. (Oxon), D.Phil. (Oxon), professor of art history, visual art and theory and the director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, has held curatorial positions at the British Museum, Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums Brighton, and at the Horniman Museum London. He has served on the international advisory boards of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin and the Asian Cultural Complex, Gwangju and has held parallel faculty positions at the University of East Anglia, University of Sussex, University College London and the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He has done fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala, the American Southwest and Portugal. His more than 150 publications include Art Anthropology and Aesthetics (1992); Museums and Changing Perspectives of Culture (1995), Collectors (two volumes 2001), Fetishism. Visualizing Power and Desire (1995), Luminescence (2012), and Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In between. Portuguese Popular Art (2015). He has curated fifteen major international exhibitions, the latest of which, Mexican Masks. An Assembly of Imaginary Beings, will open at the Museu do Cidade, Lisbon in July 2017.
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