Claire Bishop
Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Exhibition History

PhD, Essex Univerity, 2002

cbishop@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Claire Bishop has previously taught in the Curating Contemporary Art department of the Royal College of Art, London, where she continues to be Visiting Professor, and at Warwick University. She is a frequent contributor to Artforum, October, Tate Etc, IDEA, Ramona, and other art magazines internationally. Claire is interested in post-medium specific art since the 1960s (conceptual practices, installation, performance, video), and its relationship to issues of spectatorship and display. She is currently working on a history and theory of socially-engaged art.

Books and Articles:

‘Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics’, October, no.110, Fall 2004

Installation Art: A Critical History, London: Tate, 2005

Participation, London: Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2006

‘Vienna, Inc: The Analytic Documenta’, Journal of Visual Culture, pp.206-214

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