Dorothy Price (art historian) explained
Dorothy Cilla Price (born 1969[1]) is a British art historian and academic. She is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. 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.[2] [3] 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.[4] [5] [6] In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[7] [8]
Career
Price studied history of art at the University of Leicester.[9]
As Professor of History of Art at Bristol, Price was a founder member and inaugural Director of the Centre for Black Humanities. She was appointed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the Courtauld in 2021.
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.[10]
In 2022, Price curated 'Making Modernism' at the Royal Academy, London, focussed on women artists working in Germany in the early 1900s.[11]
Academic and public service
Price is a trustee of the Holburne Museum, Bath[12] and a trustee of Spike Island, Bristol.[13]
With Chantal Joffe and Andrew Nairne, Price served as a judge for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.[14]
She sits on the Academic Advisory Board and Exhibitions Committee of the Royal West of England Academy.
In 2019 Price founded the British Art Network subgroup on Black British Art at the Tate/Paul Mellon Centre.[15]
She is a continuing member of the British Art Network Steering Group in 2021–2022.
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.
Notes and References
- Web site: Price, Prof. Dorothy Cilla, (born 19 April 1969), Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, since 2021 . Who's Who 2023 . Oxford University Press . 3 December 2022 . en . 1 December 2022.
- Web site: Dorothy Price. 2021-11-08. ROOT-ed Zine. en.
- Web site: Roig. Estel Farell. 2021-03-08. The 87 most influential women in Bristol right now. 2021-11-08. BristolLive. en.
- Web site: 2021-05-19. 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. 2021-11-08. The Courtauld. en-US.
- Web site: Dorothy Price. 2021-11-08. British Art Network. en-GB.
- Web site: Talks Art in the City - Chantal Joffe, in conversation with Professor Dorothy Price. 2021-11-08. Arnolfini. en-GB.
- Web site: Professor Dorothy Price FBA. 2021-11-08. The British Academy. en.
- Web site: Bristol. University of. Bristol academics elected as Fellows to The British Academy. 2021-11-08. FE News. en-gb.
- Web site: 2015-06-05. Report 1 – Introduction to German Expressionism . 2021-11-08. www.germanexpressionismleicester.org.
- Web site: Art History June 2021. 2021-11-08. Art History. en-GB.
- Web site: Chantal Joffe RA and Prof. Dorothy Price in conversation Event Royal Academy of Arts . 2022-11-02 . www.royalacademy.org.uk.
- Web site: Trustees. 2021-11-08. The Holburne Museum. en-US.
- Web site: Staff and Trustees. 2021-11-08. Spike Island. en.
- Web site: News. 2021-11-08. trinitybuoywharfdrawingprize.drawingprojects.uk.
- Web site: Centre. Paul Mellon. The new British Art Network sub-groups. 2021-11-08. www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. en.
