Claire Bishop

Claire Bishop is an art critic and Presidential Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012), Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? (Walther König, 2013) and a book of conversations with the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (Cisneros, 2020). She has two books forthcoming in 2024: Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Verso) and Merce Cunningham’s Events: Key Concepts (Koenig Books). She is a Contributing Editor of Artforum, and her essays and books have been translated into twenty languages.