Ward's dramatic installations, built from repurposed materials, comment on race and discrimination – central topics to current debates around community and identity in the contemporary world Ward is a leading American artist who has recently received commissions from Creative Time and the United Nations, and has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Rome Prize in 2014 Ward exhibited at Documenta 11, Prospect.1, and the Whitney Biennial, and was recently the subject of a major midcareer survey at the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and the ICA Boston in 2016–17 This is the latest in Phaidon's collaborative publishing with the New Museum, following titles on Thomas Bayrle, Sara Lucas, Raymond Pettibon, Pipilotti Rist, and Anri Sala