John Held, Jr. (New York, 1947-), visual artist and writer living in San Francisco, California, has often been associated with Mail Art, having written a major reference book on the subject and his papers residing in the Archives of American Art. He has staged over thirty exhibitions of his work in twelve countries, including Moscow (2003), Paris (2005), and Seoul (2006). His exhibition, “Debris from the Cultural Underground,” featuring both his paintings and collections of Fluxus, Conceptual and Mail Art, were the subject of an Artforum review (January 2011). His work is included in the Getty Research Library and MoMA/NY, as well as in private collections throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.