His research is concentrated on sculpture and spatial politics in the 20th century, the social and political dynamics of consumer society, and the sociohistorical frameworks for contemporary art and exhibition. His writing has appeared in Documents, October, Afterall, and Frieze, among others. In 2009 Myers received an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for Mirror-Travel in the Motor City, a book collaboratively written with artist Edgar Arceneaux on earthworks, drawing, Detroit, urban warfare, and guerrilla historiography. Myers received a BA from Cornell University and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.