Katy Deepwell is Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University, London where she supervises 4 PhD students working on the visual arts in practice and theory. Her books include: 3 sole-authored books: Women Artists Between the Wars: ‘A Fair Field and No Favour’ (Manchester University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7190-8080-7 (also the subject of her PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1992). Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland. (London: IB Tauris, 2005). ISBN 1-85043-621-5. Ten Decades: The Careers of Ten Women Artists born 1897-1906, Exhibition Catalogue of Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Norwich Gallery, NIAD, April 1992, ISBN 1-872482-05-8 and 7 edited volumes: Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Netherlands: Valiz, published March 2020) ISBN: 978-94-92095-72-5. All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the Long 1970s (co-edited with Agata Jakubowska) (Liverpool University Press, 2018) ISBN: 978-1-78694-058-2. Feminist Art Manifestos: An Anthology (KT press, ebook, 2014) ISBN: 978-0-9926934-3-5. The Gender, Theory and Art Anthology: 1970-2000 [English title of Russian book] (co-edited with Mila Bredikhina) (Moscow: Rosspen Publishing House, 2005) ISBN: 5-8243-0595-1. Women Artists and Modernism (Manchester University Press, June, 1998). ISBN 0-7190-5082-0. Art Criticism and Africa (Saffron Books, July 1997) ISBN 1-872843-13-1. New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies (Manchester University Press, 1995) ISBN 0-7190-4258-5 – also translated to Spanish: Nueva Critica Feminista de Arte (Universidad de Valencia, 1998). ISBN 84-376-1632-8. Recent articles include: ‘Identity/Alterity re-de-constructed in Repetition and Difference: Verdi Yahooda’ for Art History Special issue on Remapping British Art: Three Moments of Modernism. Vol 44, issue 3. June, 2021. pp. 554-571. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12579 ; ‘Witches, Feminist representations in contemporary art and Misogyny’ Pomegranate: International Pagan Journal (Equinox Publishing) published 2020; Vol 21, No 2 (2019) pp. 146-171. ISSN 1528-0268 [Article] (doi:10.1558/pome.37942) and ‘Art Criticism and the State of Feminist Art Criticism’ Arts 2020, 9(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts9010028.
She founded and edited: n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (1998-2017). The website of the journal (https://www.ktpress.co.uk) houses The Feminist Art Observatory, a large online database of bibliographic information, links and data about exhibitions about contemporary women artists and feminist theory in the visual arts post-1970. The company she founded, KT press, also publishes electronic books on feminist art and 2 MOOCs, one on contemporary arts and feminism and the other on feminist art manifestos as a means to explore feminist debates (https://nparadoxa.com).
Institute of Art History, Faculty of Culture and Arts, Warsaw University
This project is made possible with support from the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Art Histories initiative.
