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Katy Deepwell
Occupation(s)Feminist art critic, academic

Katy Deepwell is a feminist art critic and academic, based in London. She is the founder and editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, published 1998-2017, in 40 volumes by KT press. She founded KT press as a feminist not-for-profit publishing company to publish the journal and books on feminist art. KT press has published 8 e-books, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In Feb 2017, Katy Deepwell wrote and published a MOOC (a mass open online course) on feminism and contemporary art at.[1] In May 2020, a second advanced course on feminist art manifestos was added to the site. The model for both MOOCs is FemTechNet’s DOCC: Distributed Open Collaborative Course.

The journal was part of the Documenta 12 Magazines Project in 2007. n.paradoxa is an art magazine which publishes articles on women artists from around the world. The journal released all articles as open access PDFs in 2018, and continued to produce The Feminist Art Observatory,[2] listing information about contemporary women artists and feminism.

She was President of the British Section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), 1997–2000. She was Chair of Trustees of Women's Art Library, London, 1989–1994, a national charity and library on women artists which closed in 2002, now housed at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Her work has been centred on the promotion of feminism in relation to the contemporary art and art criticism.

Early life and education

Deepwell trained as an artist at St Martins School of Art, 1982–1985. She then obtained a M.A. Social History of Art from University of Leeds in 1986 and a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London in 1991.

Works

Academic work

Deepwell is currently Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University.[3] Katy Deepwell has taught since 1986 in different Universities in UK and Europe. Her last post was as Reader in Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism and Head of Research Training at University of the Arts London (2004–2010).

She has worked as a lecturer teaching art history and art theory in universities including Goldsmiths' College, Oxford Brookes University, Kent Institute of Art and Design and University of Copenhagen since 1986. She was a Leverhulme Research Fellow (Leverhulme Trust) in 2008–2009. In 2021, she was awarded a Distinguished Feminist Scholar award as an art critic by College Art Association in USA.[4]

Publications and editorial works

3 Sole Authored:

9 Edited volumes:

Recent essays

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References

  1. ^ https://nparadoxa.com
  2. ^ "Feminist Art Observatory".
  3. ^ "Dr Katy Deepwell | Middlesex University London".
  4. ^ "Awards for Distinction | Programs | CAA".
  5. ^ https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/9/1/28/pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ Deepwell, Katy (2020). "Postdigital Education, Feminism, Women". Postdigital Science and Education. 2 (2): 248–253. doi:10.1007/s42438-019-00096-1. S2CID 213709900.
  7. ^ "Art Criticism and Africa". 26 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Silvia Ziranek – interview: 'I enjoy appearance, colour, shape and form – and I love dressing up'".

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