Alexander Alberro

Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History, Barnard

Modern and Contemporary Art; History of Photography
Ph.D., Northwestern, 1996

Contact Information

Phone: (212) 854-0311

Office: 503C Diana
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 and Thursdays, 12:30-1:30

Biography

Alexander Alberro's courses and graduate advising is in the area of modern and contemporary European, U.S., and Latin American art, as well as in the history of photography. His essays on modern and contemporary art have appeared in a wide variety of journals and exhibition catalogues. He is also the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2003), and has edited a number of books on contemporary art for MIT Press and the University of California Press, including Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists Writings; Art After Conceptual Art; Museum Fictions; Recording Conceptual Art; Two-Way Mirror Power; and Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology.

Alberro is currently completing book-length study of the emergence and development of abstract art in Latin America and is beginning to work on a volume that explores new forms of art and spectatorship that have crystallized in the past two decades.

Selected Publications

Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, co-edited with Blake Stimson MIT Press, 2009.

Art after Conceptual Art, co-edited with Sabeth Buchmann, MIT Press, 2006. German language version published by General Foundation, 2006.

Museum Highlights: The Collected Writings of Andrea Fraser, edited, MIT Press, 2006.

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity, MIT Press, 2004.