Lynne Warren is Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Besides authoring over 30 MCA exhibition catalogs, including Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, she is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Chicago; the Groves Dictionaries Dictionary of Art; and is the editor of the forthcoming three-volume reference book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography published by Taylor and Francis. She has taught courses at the University of Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, and The University of Illinois at Chicago, and has lectured throughout the United States.