Katy Deepwell is an art critic and lecturer, based in London.
She founded n.paradoxa online in December 1996 and established
the printed version as a biannual publication in January 1998, published
by KT press.
In 2009, she guest edited a special report on Asian Women Artists for C-Arts Mag (vol 09, Aug 09), commissioning 12 articles for that issue and contributing one herself.
Follow the links below to find out more information on her work over the last
twelve years in :-
Teaching and Education Publications :
Books Essays Articles
Conference Papers Guest Lectures
To contact the editor, email : k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk
or write to : 38 Bellot Street, East Greenwich, London SE10 OAQ,
England.
Tel/Fax +44 (0)20 8858 3331
Katy Deepwell is Head of Research Training for the University of
the Arts, London (September 2004 - present).
Sept 2008-June 2009, she was on research leave as a Leverhulme Research
Fellow.
She works with M.Phil and PhD students at UAL, runs the Research Network
for the UAL, and is a supervisor of PhDs.
Katy Deepwell wrote her PhD on 'Women Artists in Britain between the Two World Wars' (London, Birkbeck College, 1991). Her MA is in the Social History of Art (Leeds University, 1986) and her BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Painting) (St Martins School of Art and Design, 1985).
She was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Fine Art at University of
Ulster, Belfast, November 1999-January 2003.
She has worked as a lecturer in art theory and twentieth century art
history at a number of different colleges in Britain: Oxford-Brookes
University (1995-1996 & 1997-1998); Goldsmiths' College (1989-1995);
West Surrey College of Art and Design (1993); Kent Institute of Art and
Design (1986-1992) and at the Art History Dept, University of Copenhagen
(Oct-Nov 1998).
She was Chair of the Executive Committee at Women's Art Library,
1990-1994. From 1997-2000, she was President of the British Section of the
International Art Critics Association (AICA), a UNESCO
non-governmental organisation. In 2001, she joined the Irish Section of
AICA.
She has been critic-in-residence at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (July/August,1999); Nordic Art Centre, Suomenlinna, Finland (August 2000); and for 2 months at Die Hoege, Germany (2003).
From April 2004-March 2006, she was an International Advisory Board Member for Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto (CAMK) in Japan.
Katy Deepwell : Publications : Books
Essays in Books and Exhibition Catalogues
‘Equal but different: questions about rights, statistics and feminist strategies for change’ Frauenkunstwissenschaft (Germany) (August 2009)
‘Feminist Art Criticism’ in The Furious Gaze Centro Cultural MONTEHERMOSO KULTURENEA, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (catalogue, 2009)
‘Self and Other in Late Consumer Capitalism’ in SELF and OTHER: Portraits from Asia and Europe touring exhibition in Japan and Europe 2008-2009 Curators: Kenjo Yoshida and Brian Durrans. Japanese pp.125-123. English pp.304-306.
‘Claims for a Feminist Politics in Painting’ in Anne Ring Petersen (et al, eds.) Contemporary Painting in Context (University of Copenhagen/Novo Nordisk Foundation, 2009)
‘A Feminist Critique of Disinterestedness’ in Lisa Ryan Musgrave (Ed.) Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: The Power of Critical Visions and Creative Engagement (New York: Springer, June 2009)
‘Women War Artists in the First World War in Britain’ in Karen Brown (ed) Agency and Mediation amongst Women Artists between the Wars (Ashgate Press, 2007/2008)
‘Social Feminism’ Rene Zechlin et al (eds.) Cooling Out (Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag 2007/2008)
‘Feminist Role Models’ in It’s Time for Action (There’s No Option) About Feminism Migros Museum, Zurich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag (2007)
‘Seven Urgent Questions for Feminism’ in Gisela Weimann (ed) Shared Time - Tiempo compartido -Geteilte Zeit (Berlin, 2007)
‘Sanja Ivekovic's Women;s Room/Frauenhaus project’ Afterall, vol 15 Spring/Summer 2007 pp.83-88
Catalogue essay for Work/Labour curated by Sylvia Eiblmayr (Innsbruck: Galerie im Taxispalais, June 2005, toured to Cork and Belfast in 2006/2007).
‘Issues in Feminist Curation: Strategies and Practices’ in Janet Marstine (ed) An Introduction to New Museum Theory (USA: Blackwells, 2006)
'Valuation - De-valuation - Re-evaluation' in Julia Shäfer (ed) Trautes Heim/ Cosy Home (Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenossiche Kunst, Koln: Walter Konig Books, 2005).
short essay for Festival catalogue and curation of 'Dreams of the Future: Suzanne Treister and Olga Kisseleva' Ljubljana: Skuc Gallery for City of Women 10th Annual Festival, 1-10th October 2004.
‘Issues in Feminist Curation: Strategies and Practices’ in Janet Marstine (ed) An Introduction to New Museum Theory (USA: Blackwells, 2006) pp.64-84.'
From my Fingers: Living in the Technological Age. Key Event of the First International Women's Art Festival in Taiwan. (Taiwan: Kaohisung Museum of Fine Arts, May 8-July 27 2003) (English text pp. 46-51: Chinese, pp.40-45). Organised by the Association of Women Artists and Elsa Chen.
Sanja Ivekovic's Frauenhaus (Zagreb: Museum of Contemporary Art, March 2003). 5 pages, no page numbers. (Text in Croatian and English).
'Défier l'indifférence a la différence: les paradoxes de la critique d'art féministe' in Pierre-Henry Frangne & Jean-Marc Poinsot (eds) L'Invention de Critique D'Art (France: Presses Universitaries de Rennes, 2002, text in French) pp.191-205.
'Torture, Gender and Representation: Against the Torture of Women' in Art Against Execution and Torture (Kaliningrad: Center for Contemporary Art) published as a CD-Rom and website in English and Russian, Aug 2001
'Reality/Real Estate' and 'Parallel and Plural Narratives' in Reality/Real Estate Foundation, Center for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava: SCCA Annual Exhibition.(exhibition 2001, catalogue 2002)
'Women, Subjects and Objects and the End of History (Painting)' in N.Green and P.Seddon (ed) Whatever happened to History Painting? (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2000)
'Fra Objekt til Subjekt - forkydninger omkring det Kvindelige Feministke Subjekt / Constested Constructions: Objects into Subjects - and the Shifting Boundaries of Female Feminist Subjects' in Stine Hoholt/ Christian Gether (eds) Mennlichkeit/ Man Denmark: Arken, September 2000.
'Text and Subtext' in book by Curator/Editor: Binghui Huanghui Text and Sub-Text to accompany Earl-Lu Gallery,Lasalle-SIA College of Arts' International Touring Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Women Artists.(Singapore, July,2000).
Power Ekroth, Tove Helander (eds) Expositioner - Anthologi om Utstallningsmediet (The Exhibition as an Artistic Medium) Stockholm: Konstfack, 2000 published for the Sollentuna Art Fair.
April 2000 · 'All You Need is Love' essay in group exhibition catalogue All You Need is Love. Gdansk, Poland: Bathhouse/Gallery of Modern Art. Curator: Aneta Syzlak.(May-June 2000)
March 2000. 'Desire by Design' AICA 1998 conference papers. Transition: Changing Society and Art (Tokyo: AICA, Japan & AICA Press,1999)
‘Digital Sampling: Women Artist's Use of Technology in Europe, Canada, America and Australia’ Edge Cutters Women’s Research Group Desire by Design University of Westminster, (IB Tauris, 1998)
‘Bad Girls: Feminism and Identity Politics in the 1990s’ in J. Steyn (ed) Beyond Identity: Other Than Identity (Manchester University Press,1997) pp.152-166.
Essay: 'Orthodoxies and Paradoxes in Feminist Art' , Women and Art, papers from 1997 conference, (CCA Galleries, Glasgow,1998)
Catalogue Essay: 'Visions of Identity in Flux: Chila Kumari Burman', exhibition catalogue, Genders and Nations: Shirin Neshat, Chila Burman curator: Salah Hassan, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April 1998.
Introductory essay ‘Women Artists: Careers and Training in Britain and Ireland in the 20th C’ and Entries on E.Agar, I.Colquhoun, J.Dismorr, G.Hermes,W.Nicholson, D.Proctor, E.Walker, J.Morreau, Sylvia Gosse in Delia Gaze (ed) Dictionary of Women Artists (Fitzroy Dearborn,1997).ISBN 1-884964-21-4
'A Critique of Kant's notion of Disinterestedness: Sophie Calle & Adrian Piper' T.Moualla (ed) Visual Poetics (U.A.E.: Ministry of Culture, Govt. of Sharjah, publication of Sharjah Biennale committee, March 1997)
‘Feminist Readings of Louise Bourgeois’ Ian Cole (ed) Louise Bourgeois: MOMA Papers, Vol 1 MOMA,Oxford, March 1996.
‘Hepworth and Her Critics’ David Thistlewood (ed) Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered Liverpool University / Tate Gallery,Liverpool (March 1996) .
‘A Fair Field and No Favour: Women Artists in Britain' in Sybil Oldfield, ed., This Working Day World: Womens Lives and Culture in Britain 1914-1945, Brighton: Falmer Press,1994 pp.141-155.
‘Women Artists: Careers and Training in Britain and Ireland in the 20th C’ and Entries on E.Agar, I.Colquhoun, J.Dismorr, G.Hermes, W.Nicholson, D.Proctor, E.Walker, J.Morreau, Sylvia Gosse in Delia Gaze (ed) Dictionary of Women Artists London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
Catalogue Essay : Deanna Petherbridge: Themata London, Fisher Fine Art, Jan 17-Feb 18 1990 (Reprinted in WASL Journal No.33 March/April 1990 pp.12-13)
Catalogue Essay :Jacqueline Morreau : Themes and Variations Ferens Art Gallery,Hull, Touring Exhibition November 2-Dec 14 1996
‘Curated Selections’ AXIS (UK) online curated exhibition and text at www.axisweb.org/curatedselections (August 2009). Axis is the UK's largest Artists Registry.
‘Monica
Sjoo’ short catalogue essay in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 years of art
and feminism (Bilbao: Museo de Belles Artes, 2007) Curator: Xabier
Arakistain
'Sanja Ivekovic's Frauenhaus'
republished catalogue essay from 2001, Afterall (London)
May 2007
May 2007 ‘Portals of Art History’ Sterling and Francis Clark Art Institute, USA.Organisers: Michael Ann Holly and Mark Ledbury.
April 2007 Keynote speaker at ‘Repeat, Repeat’ Myriad conference, University of Chester
February 2007 panel discussion and presentation III Encuentros Internacionales de Arte y Genero, Segunde Mesa: Arte y Ciberfeminismo, Seville, Spain (curator: M.Aizpuro)
July 2006
'Diasporic
Futures, Women, the Arts and Globalization' Victoria & Albert
Museum, London. Organisers: Kingston Univ., Univ. of Roehampton and
Lancaster Univ.
Dec 2005 ‘What About Feminism?’ Panel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Oct 2005 ‘Claims for a Feminist Politics in Painting’ in Contemporary Painting in Context, Danish Art Academy and Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen.
April 2005 Co-chair of panel with Britta Dwyer 'Women's Contribution to Visual Culture between the Wars, 1918-1939' Association of Art Historians Conference, Bristol. May 2004
August 2007 ‘Regendering Documenta’ with Judy Freya Sibayan documenta 12, Kassel
November 2005
Valand School of Art, University of Goteborg
Feb 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto, Japan.
To contact the editor, email : k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk
or write to : 38 Bellot Street, East Greenwich, London SE10 OAQ,
England.
Tel/Fax +44 (0)208 858 3331