Olinda, Victoria, Australia
Dr. Ken Wach is an Associate Professor and former Principal Research Fellow and Head of the School of Creative Arts at The University of Melbourne, where he taught art history for thirty-five years. He has conducted research at Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Courtauld Institute in London, the Salvador Dalí Teatro-Museo in Figueres, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida and the Reina Sofía in Madrid. He has also fulfilled publication contracts for Abrams, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, State Library of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Christies, Deutscher-Menzies, Dalí Teatro Museo, St. Leopold Bogdan Church, Dalí Museum, One East Asia-Singapore, Menzies Art Brands, Robert Klippel Estate, Galerie Gmurzynska, Deakin University and Ballarat Art Gallery He is the author of 12 international texts and 341 items of art historical research, including chapters in the following catalogues: Surrealism: Revolution by Night (National Gallery of Australia, 1993); Surrealist Texts: The Inexhaustible Murmur (State Library of Victoria, 1993); The Aberrant Object: Women, Dada and Surrealism (Heide Museum of Modern Art, 1994), Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud (Deakin University, 2001); James Gleeson Retrospective (National Gallery of Victoria, 2004); Geoffrey Bartlett Retrospective (National Gallery of Victoria, 2007); Modern Britain 1900-1960 (National Gallery of Victoria, 2008); Dali: Liquid Desire (National Gallery of Victoria, 2009); Ballarat International Foto Biennial (Ballarat, 2011); Revisited: 3 Decades of Surrealist Tendencies in Indonesian Art (One East Asia-Singapore, 2012); Coincidence-Photographs by Louviere+Vanessa (Polk Museum of Art, Florida, 2013); Robert Klippel: The American and European Years (Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich, 2013); The Art of Daniel Moynihan: Printmaking 1966-2016 (Ballarat Art Gallery 2016); Godwin Bradbeer: Stigma and Enigma (Deakin University 2017) and The David and Diane Taylor Family Collection (Brisbane 2022)