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| David Joselit | |
|---|---|
| Name | David Joselit |
| Occupation | Art historian, critic, curator, professor |
| Known for | Scholarship on contemporary art, globalism, network culture |
David Joselit is an American art historian, critic, curator, and professor noted for his work on contemporary art, modernism, and the intersections of art with media, archives, and global networks. He has held faculty positions at major universities, curated international exhibitions, and contributed influential books and essays that engage subjects ranging from abstraction to transnational circulation. His scholarship intersects with debates involving artists, institutions, publishers, and exhibitions across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Joselit was born and raised in the United States and pursued undergraduate and graduate studies that prepared him for a career linking historical research with contemporary practice. He trained in programs associated with institutions such as Yale University, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, and Princeton University—institutions that commonly feature in academic trajectories of art historians. His doctoral and postdoctoral work engaged archives and libraries connected to collections at the Library of Congress, Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum, aligning him with scholars active in the study of modern and contemporary art.
Joselit has held professorships and visiting appointments at major universities and art schools including Yale University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Williams College, Brown University, Columbia University, New York University, California Institute of the Arts, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught courses drawing on primary materials housed at institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art (United States), Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and the Getty Research Institute. His pedagogical collaborations have connected him with faculty and students associated with fellow scholars like Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, T. J. Clark, Griselda Pollock, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and with artists affiliated with galleries such as Gagosian Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, and Dia Art Foundation.
Joselit is author of major books and numerous essays published by presses and journals including University of Chicago Press, MIT Press, Yale University Press, and October (journal). His scholarship addresses themes represented in exhibitions at Venice Biennale, Documenta, Whitney Biennial, and in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has written on artists and movements tied to names like Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Hannah Höch, Kara Walker, Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama, Anselm Kiefer, and Mark Bradford. His essays have appeared in venues such as Artforum, Art in America, October (journal), The New York Times, and The Guardian, and engage publishers and curatorial projects associated with Princeton University Press, Routledge, and Thames & Hudson.
Joselit has curated and co-curated exhibitions for museums and organizations including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Baltimore Museum of Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Hayward Gallery, and venues participating in the Venice Biennale and Documenta. He has collaborated with curators and directors such as Klaus Biesenbach, Okwui Enwezor, Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Spector, Thelma Golden, Kara Walker, and Rirkrit Tiravanija on projects addressing transnational circulation, archival display, and networked practices. His curatorial texts have been included in catalogues produced with publishers like Skira, Phaidon, and Hatje Cantz.
Joselit has received fellowships, grants, and awards from organizations including the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Getty Foundation. His work has been supported by research residencies at institutions such as the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He has been recognized with honors shared by peers in circles including College Art Association, American Philosophical Society, and international scholarly societies linked to the European Association of Art Historians and the International Council of Museums.
Joselit’s writing and curatorial practice have influenced debates within forums such as October (journal), Artforum, Art Bulletin, and at conferences hosted by College Art Association, Association of Art Historians, and the Modernist Studies Association. Critics, historians, and curators including Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Lucy Lippard, Claire Bishop, Griselda Pollock, and Terry Smith have engaged his work in reviews and symposiums. His contributions shape conversations connecting art to institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and academic publishers like MIT Press and Yale University Press, informing scholarship and exhibition-making across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Category:American art historians Category:American curators Category:Art critics