Richard Vine is the managing editor of Art in America, where he writes frequently on contemporary art and ideas. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Chicago and has served as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review and of Dialogue: An Art Journal. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Conservatory of Music, the University of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, the New School for Social Research, and New York University. His articles have appeared in various journals, including Salmagundi, the Georgia Review, Tema Celeste, Modern Poetry Studies, and the New Criterion, and in numerous art catalogues and critical compendiums. His book-length study, Odd Nerdrum: Paintings, Sketches, and Drawings, was published by Gyldendal/D.A.

P. in 2001. New China, New Art, his book surveying art in China from 1978 to the present, was released by Prestel Publishers in fall 2008 and reissued in an updated and expanded edition in fall 2011. In fall 2013, he curated the international exhibition "Darkness Visible" at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. "Golden Sections," his 10-year survey of the work of Icelandic sculptor and architect Gudjon Bjarnason, took place January-February 2015 at the National Academy of Art in New Delhi, India. In July 2016, Vine's novel SoHo Sins, a murder mystery set in the New York art world of the 1990s, will be released under the Hard Case Crime imprint of Titan Books, London, with U.S. distribution through Random House.