Claire Bishop
Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Exhibition History

PhD, Essex University, 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(UK). She is a frequent contributor to Artforum and a research advisor for Former West. Prof. Bishop is interested in post-medium specific art since the 1960s (performance art, installation, conceptual art, video, participation) and exhibition history. Recurrent themes in her research are spectatorship and the relationship between art and politics.

Publications:

"Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics." October, no.110 (Fall 2004).

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

Participation. London: Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2006.

Double Agent. London: ICA, 2009.

1968-1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change, Warsaw. Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2010.

Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. London: Verso, 2011.

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