Bruce Hainley is an American critic, writer and poet. He is the professor of Criticism and Theory at the MFA program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California. In 2021, he was made Chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University.

He is the author of Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face, No Biggie, and Foul Mouth, among other books. He assembled and edited Gary Indiana’s Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns 1985–1988 as well as Commie Pinko Guy, a publication that accompanied the first European survey of the work of Larry Johnson at Raven Row.

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