Dorothy Price (art historian)

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Professor

Dorothy Price

FBA
OccupationProfessor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture The Courtauld Institute
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Leicester University of Essex PhD
Academic work
DisciplineHistory of Art

Dorothy Price FBA is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the Courtauld and Fellow of the British Academy.[1][2] She was previously Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and was the first woman of colour to be appointed to a Chair in Art History at a Russell Group university.[3][4] Price researches, teaches, and curates on "histories, art and thought of people of African descent", with a focus on German modernism, German expressionism, and post-war Black British art, with a focus on women artists.[5][6][7]

Career[]

Price studied history of art at the University of Leicester.[8]

As Professor of History of Art at Bristol, Price was a founder member and inaugural Director of the Centre for Black Humanities.[5][6] She was appointed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the Courtauld in 2021.[5]

Price has served as Editor of Art History, the journal of the Association for Art History. In 2021, she co-edited a special issue with Sonia Boyce on Black British Modernism.[9]

Academic and public service[]

Price is a Trustee of the Holburne Museum Bath[10] and a Trustee of Spike Island, Bristol.[11][4]

With Chantal Joffe RA and Andrew Nairne OBE, Price served as a judge for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.[12]

She sits on the Academic Advisory Board and Exhibitions Committee of the Royal West of England Academy.[6]

In 2019 Price founded the British Art Network subgroup on Black British Art at the Tate/Paul Mellon Centre.[13]

She is a continuing member of the British Art Network Steering Group in 2021-22.[6]

Selected publications[]

  • Representing Berlin (2003)
  • Women the Arts and Globalization (with Marsha Meskimmon) (2013)
  • After Dada (2013)
  • Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing (2018). This book project stemmed for work done as co-curator with Joffe of an exhibition at The Lowry, Salford in 2018.
  • Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price, “Decolonizing Art History”, Art History 43, no. 1 (January 2020): 8–66, doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12490.

References[]

  1. ^ "Professor Dorothy Price FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  2. ^ Bristol, University of. "Bristol academics elected as Fellows to The British Academy". FE News. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  3. ^ "Dorothy Price". ROOT-ed Zine. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  4. ^ a b Roig, Estel Farell (2021-03-08). "The 87 most influential women in Bristol right now". BristolLive. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  5. ^ a b c "The Courtauld appoints Professor Dorothy Price and Indie A. Choudhury to roles in Modern and Contemporary Art, with a specialism in Black studies and critical race art history". The Courtauld. 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  6. ^ a b c d "Dorothy Price". British Art Network. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  7. ^ "Talks | Art in the City - Chantal Joffe, in conversation with Professor Dorothy Price". Arnolfini. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  8. ^ "Report 1 - Introduction to German Expressionism". www.germanexpressionismleicester.org. 2015-06-05. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  9. ^ "Art History | June 2021". Art History. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  10. ^ "Trustees". The Holburne Museum. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  11. ^ "Staff and Trustees". Spike Island. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  12. ^ "News". trinitybuoywharfdrawingprize.drawingprojects.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  13. ^ Centre, Paul Mellon. "The new British Art Network sub-groups". www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
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