Jan-Erik Lundström is the former director of BildMuseet, Umeå, a museum of contemporary art and visual culture and of Fotografiska Museet in Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and chairman of Centrum för Fotografi, Stockholm.

He is a prolific international curator, lecturer and writer. Among his latest curatorial projects are Being A Part, Politics of Place, Transfer, Society Must Be Defended (for the 1^st Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art), Carlos Capelan: Onlyyou, Socialisms and Same, Same, but Different. He was the chief curator of Berlin Photography Festival, 2005, where he curated the exhibition After the Fact, a major survey of documentary practices in contemporary art and he was the artistic director of the 3^rd Bucharest Biennale in May, 2008 resulting in The Map: Navigating the Present. His most recent biennial engagement was with LAB09, LuleÃ¥, with the exhibition RISK.

He is the author of several books, including Nordic Landscapes, Tankar om fotografi (Thoughts on Photography), Ursula Biemann: Mission Reports. Artistic Practice in the Field, Looking North and Irving Penn. Lundström has contributed to major publications such as Horizons: Towards a Global Africa, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph and Photo Art.

He has been a guest professor at, among others, HISK, Antwerp, Kunstakademie, Oslo, TAIK, Helsinki and Stockholm Art Academy.