Dr. David Joselit

Biography

David Joselit is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor in the Department of Art, Film, Visual Studies at Harvard University. He began his career as a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston from 1983 to 1989. He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1995 and has held teaching positions at the University of California, Irvine, Yale University, and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he served as Department Chair of History of Art from 2006 to 2009. Joselit is a well-regarded author, having written several influential books including 'Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941' (MIT, 1998), 'American Art 1945' (Thames Hudson, 2003), 'Feedback: Television Democracy' (MIT, 2007), 'Art' (Princeton University Press, 2012), and 'Heritage Debt: Art Globalization' (MIT, 2020), which was awarded the 2021 Robert Motherwell Book Award. He co-organized the exhibition 'Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,' which opened at the Brandhorst Museum in Munich in 2015. Joselit is also the editor of the journal OCTOBER and frequently writes about contemporary art and culture. His most recent book is 'Art’s Properties,' published by Princeton University Press in 2023.

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