Claire Bishop

Claire Bishop is Presidential Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she is also Faculty Director of the James Gallery. Her books include Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012, winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism), a book of conversations with the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (Cisneros, 2020), and Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Verso, 2024, shortlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award). She is a Contributing Editor of Artforum, a Guggenheim Fellow (2024), and her essays and books have been translated into twenty languages. She is currently working on a history and theory of ancestralism in contemporary art.