Douglas Crimp

Douglas Crimp began writing art criticism for Art News and Art International in the early 1970s and has published widely in such magazines as Artforum and Art in America as well as in scholarly journals. He has worked as a curator, co-organizing Mixed Use, Manhattan for the Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2010, and Greater New York at MoMA PS1 in 2015. He is well known as a theoretician of postmodernism in the visual arts owing to his 1977 Artists Space exhibition, Pictures; his editorship of the journal October from 1977 to 1990; and his writings on art practices and institutions collected in his 1993 book On the Museum’s Ruins. He edited a special issue of October on AIDS in 1987 and wrote extensively about AIDS in the ensuing years. His art criticism has been recognized with Art Critics Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction on Art Criticism from the College Art Association, and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester; he has also taught at NYU, the University of Manchester, UCLA, Princeton, Rutgers, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, and the Cooper Union.