Justin Beal is an artist with an extensive exhibition history in the United States and Europe. Beal graduated from Yale University with a BA in architecture and design and continued his studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program and the University of Southern California. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, Interview and the Los Angeles Times and is included in the permanent collections of the Albright Knox Museum, the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Beal currently teaches at Hunter College. Sandfuture is his first book.