Sarah Wilson - supervised research – 30 PhDs completed

Britain

Virginia Button, English Neo-Romanticism: an Aesthetic of Decline, 1992

*ex-Turner prize curator (The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, 2004)

Hester Westley, Traditions and Transmissions: St Martin’s Sculpture Department, 1960-1969, 2007 * was postdoctoral fellow Tate Britain 

America

Christoph Grunenberg, The Politics of Presentation: Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions in New York, 1929-1947, 1994 

*Director, Kunsthalle Bremen, (ex -director, Tate Liverpool)

(thesis material in Shopping, Tate, 2002) 

France and America

Amy Dempsey, The Friendship of America and France, A New Internationalism, 

1961-1965, 1999

(Styles, Schools and Movements, Thames and Hudson, 2004

Destination Art, Thames and Hudson, 2006)

France and Germany

Nicola Lambourne, Moral Cathedrals: War Damage and Franco-German Cultural on the Western Front, 1870-1938. 1997 (co-supervision)

*War Damage in Western Europe, Edinburgh University Press 2001

France / School of Paris

Clio Mitchell, Secrets de l’Art Magique Surréaliste’ Magic and the Myth of the Artist-magician in Surrealist aesthetic theory and Practice, 1993

Elena Lledo, Postwar Abstractions: the paradox of Nicolas de Stael, 1995

Simeon Hunter, (Un)doing the avant-garde: Supports/Surfaces and tangential semantic strategies, in 1970s France, 1997, *Formerly Lecturer, Loyola University of Notre-Dame, New Orleans and Liverpool Hope University

Kathy Brunner, Picasso Rewriting Picasso: Poetry and Plays, 1936-1959. 1997

(Picasso Rewriting Picasso, London, Black Dog, 2004) 

Alyce Mahon, Surrealism and the Politics of Eros in France after 1945. 1998

Reader, University of Cambridge

(Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-68, London, Thames and Hudson

2005, and Eroticism and Art, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005

Simon Groom. ‘Un Art Autre’: Michel Tapié and the Informel adventure in France, Japan and Italy, 1998. 

* Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art

Curated Contemporary Art from China March 2007, Tate Liverpool

 Michael Taylor: Blind Man’s Buff: Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain and the critical reception of the Ready-made, 1913-1968. 1998 

Chief Curator, Virginia Museum of Art, outstanding publications include

Marcel Duchamp. Etant donnés, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art

(George Wittenborn prize, 2009)

Inge Linder, Pilgrimage to the Millenium: Sacred Art in France, 1962-1995, 2000

*Curator, Le Magazin, Grenoble – several publications

Sophie Berrebi: The Outsider as Insider: Jean Dubuffet and the United States, 1945-1973, 2003 *Lecturer in Theory of Photography and Contemporary Art, University of Amsterdam

Entrée en matière: Hubert Damisch et Jean Dubuffet, Textes et correspondances, 1961-2001 (JRPRingier / La Maison Rouge, 2016

Jean Dubuffet: the Deep End, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum 2017

Sara Cochran: Needing the Sun, Francis Picabia and the Mediterranean, 2005

*Curator of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, Arizona. 

Matthew Barr, Michel Foucault and Visual Art, 1954-1988, 2007

ed. Manet and the Object of Painting, London, Tate, 2009

Rakhee Balaram, Femmes Révolutionnaires: Women and art in 1970s France

2009, *Counterpractice: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Art of ‘French Feminism’ 1968-1981, Manchester University Press (forthcoming 2018)

Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Albany, SUNY State University of New York.
Germany

Sarah Hegenbart, Art in Action: Christoph Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa and its relation to contemporary art practice, 2017

*Lecturer, History and Theory of Art, TUM, Technical University, Munich

Israel

Jessica Eisenthal, Temporal Dissonance in Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video, 2017

Italy

Nicholas Cullinan, The Archeology of Knowledge: Excavating Arte Povera

2010, *Director National Portrait Gallery (ex-Tate, Metropolitain NY) 

Cy Twombly, 2008; Twobmy and Poussin, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2011

Martina Caruso, Miseria, Misericordia, Mascolinità: Italian Humanist Photography, 1932-1959, 2012, *Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War, London, Bloomsbury, 2017

Korea 

Kyung An, Identities contested: Contemporary Korean art and its exhibitions, 1961-1975, 2015; *Assistant curator, Asian Art, Guggenheim, New York

Poland

Sylvia Serafinowicz-Wesolowska, More than Documentation: Photography from the People’s Republic of Poland between 1965-1972, 2015

*Curator, Wroclaw Museum of Contemporary Art and London, Artforum correspondant

Spain

   Mireya E. Lewin, Antoni Tàpies and cultural identity: between the national and the international 2009 

Western Europe

  Jacopo Galimberti, Collective Art: Politics and Authorship in 1960s Western Europe (1957- 1968), 2012 * Individuals Agains Individualism, Art Collectives in  Western Europe, (1956-1969), Liverpool, Liverpool Univesrtiy Press, 2017

British Academy postdoctoral fellowship, University of Manchester

USSR 

Michael O’Mahony: Representations of ‘Fizkultura in Soviet Culture from the first Five-Year Plan to the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, 1998

Professor, University of Bristol. Russian speaker.

Author of Sport in the USSR, Reaktion books 2006.

Olympic Visions: images of the games through History, Chicago, 2012

   Aliya Abakayeva de Tiesenhausen, Socialist Realist Orientalism? Depictions of Soviet  Central Asia, 1934-1954 2010 

*Central Asia in Art, Amsterdam, I.B.Tauris, 2016)

   Nadim Samman, Between the Gulag and the Guggenheim: (post) Soviet artists and

  New York in the 1980s and 1990s, 2011, international curator

Elizaveta Butakhova, A-Ya magazine: Soviet unofficial art between Moscow, Paris and New York, 1976-1986, 2015, ex-Lecturer UCL, curator, Calvert 22

Katarina Lichvárová, New Soviet Man or Holy Fool? Self-Representation in Moscow Conceptualism, 2018

Currently under supervision

June Geddes, Richard Demarco, Networking Scotland to the International Avant-Garde

Sooyoung Leam, Lee Seung-Taek: Reconfiguring Avant-garde Art in Post-war Korea

Ana-Maria Milcic, Utopia in Fiume, Futurism, Fascism and Feminism in an occupied city, 

1919-1921

Denys Stolyarov, Politics of exchange: internationalism in Russia and cultural reception, 1988-1996 

MA theses supervised ( plus outstanding BA reports specified)

Maîtrises + DEA  (Paris-IV Sorbonne)

Africa Kirsty Falconer, The laboratoire agit-art: conceptual tactics toward a new urban identity in post-indpendance Senegal, 2012

America

Winifred Schiffmann, Americans in Paris, 1945-1965, 1983 

Kate Bush: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and their critics: sculpture and female issues 1987, 

Christoph Grunenberg, Mark Rothko: Painting and Environment, 1988, *Currently director, Kunsthalle Bremen

Stacy Tenenbaum, “A Dialectical Pretzel” the New American Painting, the Museum of Modern Art and American Cultural Diplomacy, 1952-1959, Revisionism Revised, 1992 (part published)

Amy J. Dempsey, The Friendship of America and France: A New Internationalism, 1961-1964, 1994

Samantha Henry, Performing the ‘Perfect Day’ /Staging and in(ter)vention : The Contemporary Wedding in Contemporary Art, 2010

Jordan Carter, The Precarious roles of George Maciunas and Seth Sieglaub: Fluxus, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Information, 2014 

*Assistant curator, Contemporary Art, Art Isntitute of Chicago

Mara Kolmel, Material Matters, Porous Solutions. Alisa Barenboym: between the corporeal and the digital, 2014

Sooanne Berner, Art in the magazine: Aspen 5+6, Triple Canopy, and DIS

1967-2015, 2015

Julia Victor, From Smithson to Libeskind: Mapping and writing an Language of the Postmodern through Architecture, 2015 

  Christopher Hopkins, On the Road: the Journey to Land Art in the American West, 

   2016

Andreas Petroissants, Working with a break: the echoes of changing labour structures in critical art, 1960-2017, 2017  

America, France

Gorka Couvrat-Desverges, Robert Smithson and Alain Robbe-Grillet: the Writing beneath the Surface, 2017

America, Germany

 Ramsay Kolber, Closed Circuit/Open System: Cybernetics and Communication in the early work of Hanne Darboven, (1962-1972), 2016

America, Japan, Britain

Tatiana Pavlova, Phallic advertising: Bourgeois, Kusama and Emin as ‘sexy’ brands, 2012

Belgium

 Cathleen Chaffee, Figures of Wax: Marcel Broodthaers in conversation with Jeremy Bentham, 2001 (Ph.D with Robert Storr NYU)

Britain

Louisa J. Buck, F.E. Mc William and British Surrealism, 1983 (The Art Newspaper)

Elizabeth Brooks, Edward James and Surrealism: architecture and decorative schemes of the 1930s, 1988.

Virginia Button, The concept of neo-Romanticism in art criticism and texts of the 1940s, 1984 *Tate Britain Turner Prize curator, was teaching Falmouth, Devon

Jenepher Emilie Duncan, Axis; John Piper; Changes in English art, 1934-1937, 1984.

*ex-director, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Monash University

Fiona Moran, The impact of children’s art on art criticism and the fine and decorative arts in Britian, 1900-1945, 1984. Curator Tate Modern

Anna Whitworth, The Angel of Anarchy: a study of thre work of Eileen Agar up to the Second World War in the context of English Surrealism, 1985. 

Justine Hopkins, The observer as celebrant: Michael Ayrton’s developing art, 1935- 1955, 1986. *occasional lecturer, University of Bristol 

David Cohen, SW Hayter and the theory of automatism (Atelier 17 and experimental printmaking), 1987. *Gallery Director, NewYork Studio School 

Timothy Hunting, Two Painters: Michael Wishart and Sir Francis Rose, 1988.

Angela Dawson: In a perpetual state of magic: Ithell Colquhoun and British Surrealism, 1990.

Oliver Barker: Art from France in Britain, c 1948-1959. Influence and Reception, 1993 *Director, Sotheby’s 

Sophie Howarth Literal Encounters, The Films of Steve McQueen, 1999

*ex-curator Tate Modern and INIVA

James Cahill, Crucifixions Ancient and Modern: Obscenity and Profane ritual in the art of Francis Bacon, Gilbert and George and Jake and Dinos Chapman, 2007 *Phd Cambridge, 2016, Reserach fellow Kings College, London

Eleanor Phillips, Spaces of Protest: Representation and Memory in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the Present, 2008

Elena Platonova, The subconscious of an antimonument: the portrayal of death in the work of Cornelia Parker, 2015

Joseph Black, Out of England. Hamish Fulton and Richard Long in the cultural landscape of England, 2016 * ed. and contributor, The Garden at War, Deception Art and Reason at Stowe, London, Paul Holberton, 2017

George Greenhalgh, Gilbert and George: queering mythology, hegemony and British national identity, 2017  

Austria

Leopold Thun Between accounting and suppressing: Austria’s Postwar Memory  a and Vergangenheits bewältigung in the public controversies of Günter Brus, Alfred Hrdlicka and VALIE EXPORT, 2016, Gallerist

Bulgaria

Nia Nikolaeva Tabakova, Utopia and Memory: Christo before Jeanne-Claude 1935-1963, 2006

Canada 

Marie-Pierre Raymond, Art in Montreal from 1965-1976: the Quest for a National Identity, 2001

Zoe Alexander, Light in Halifax: Daniel Buren and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2009

Eden Abramovicz, Viral Glamour in Canadian Conceptual Art: A General Idea on Infecting Mainstream Culture With Subcultural Mythology, 2015, *Sothebys

China 

Nadim Julien Samman, The Emperor’s New Clothes: Picturing the PRC’s national Identity in the Reform Era (1976-2006), 2006 *international curator

Michelle Wong, Meixhu Sichao / Trend of Art Thoughts China 1984-1987, 2011

Sophia Zhou, Abstract lessons, Picasso in China, 1983, 2014* Christies, Hong Kong

Cobra (Copenhagen/Brussels/Amsterdam)

Elisabeth A. Wallit, In search of a Paradise lost: From Bregnerod to Albisola, Asger Jorn’s theories of Utopia, 1994-5

Marcus Risdell, Constant: From Old Amsterdam to New Babylon, 1994

Croatia

Ana Vudakin, Maja Bajevic – A counterpoint to ‘Altermodernity’. Probing the limits of Bourriaud’s ‘altermoden’ theory through a reading of selected works by Maja Salt Bajevic, 2009

Cuba

Rodney Palmer, René Portocarrero and Cuban Painting, 1937-1967, 1987

(Ph.D. received, 1997, University of Sussex).

Dina Scoppetone, The Salon de Mai in Cuba and the Mural Colectiva, 1967, 1998

Daniela Zarate, Tania Brugera: Universality from the Periphery, 2006

Ethiopia

Kate Cowcher, Revolutionary Motherland or Death! Imagining Communism on the Final Frontier. Socialist Ethiopia, 1974-1991, 2009 PhD Stanford

Germany

Elizabeth Knapp, Expressionism/neoExpressionism in Germany. The Use of Style, 1985.

Richard Saltoun Anselm Kiefer and the new German Painting, 1985.

Daniela Jesson: The Internationalism of Informel Painting, France and Germany, 1950-1964, 1989

Tania Vanessa Guha: Spur, 1958-1968, cult of subversion or fine art continuum, 

(BA report), 1990

Ian King, Gerhard Richter and Photography, 1991.

Elena Lledo, The concept of nature in the work of Jean Arp, 1990 (with CG)

Maximilian Zoller, 3... 2... 1...Zero. A German Avant-Garde, 1958-1966, 2, 000

Anna-Louise Kratsch, Gallery EIGEN+ART (1983-1997) an experimental Gallery from Leipzig: In Transition from East German Margins to Documenta X, 2006

Maximilian Mugler, Monuments/Models Gustav Metzger’s Destruction and creation, 2007

Germany/‘Global’

Julia Soloyeva, Tino Sehgal : This is Experience Design, 2011

Vanessa Troiano, Dematerialised art in Capitalist Society: Maria Eichorn, Tino Seghal and the e-flux Time/bank, 2011

Alexander Wilhelmi, Rediscovering Reticence, Reiner Ruthenbeck in context, 

1967-1977, 2014

Greece

Anne-Marie Louise Ellis, Tsarouchis, Koudoglan and the neo-Byzantine movement in twentieth-century Greek art up to 1935, 1985.

Nikolaos Drosos, Art, Identity and Memory: The Greek Artistic Diaspora 1955-1994, 

2006

Alexandra Athanasiadou, Photography in focus: civic dimensions of contemporary Greek photography, 2011

‘International’

Laurel McLaughlin Corporeality within globalised migratory aesthetics according to nine female artists, 2015

Israel Natalia Fuller, Israel’s aporia: Deconstructing the Foundational myth; liberating national identity. Amir Yatziv and Public Movement, 2014

Italy Julia Colman, Beyond Catholicism: Piero Manzoni and the Society of the Miracle, 1993 * ex-director, Chinese Contemporary, Beijing and New York

Martina Caruso, Giulio Turcato: the Politics of Abstraction in postwar Italy, 2007

Thien Lam, Black and White, Life and Death: the Photography of Mario Giacomelli, 2008

Giacomo Vigilari, Pierre Paolo Pasolini’s Salò or 120 Days of Sodom and the Afterlife of Fascism in Italy, 2015

Pietro Scammacca, Animal House: Wild Paradigms in Fabio Sargentini’s Galleria Attico (1966-1972) 

Japan

James Roberts, The Gutai Group, Painting and Performance in Japan, 1955-1965, 1988 (ex-editor, Frieze magazine as *F.J.R. Roberts)

Eri Kawade, The Politics of ambiguity: the art and theory of the Hi-Red Center, 1963-1964, 1995 (won a national prize, Japan), 1995.*Dept of Arts Studies and

Curatorial Practices, Gradutate School, Tokyo University of the Arts

Latin America

Sofia Gotti, The blood/land equation: the survival of subversive practices in Latin American conceptual art, 1968-2008, 2012

Mexico

Diego Diz Rodrigues, Remedios Varo, 1993

Alberto Rios de la Rosa, Neo Arte Povera in Mexico? Stefan Bruggemann and Mario Garcia Torres Conceptual Practices, 2014

King Chan, Poetic Blindspot: Romantic Conceptualism and the work of Francis Alys, 2015

Netherlands 

Marjine Mak Enthusiasm, irony, ambivalence. Armando’s aesthetic negotiation of ‘The War’ in the Netherlands, 2015

Poland

André Borkowski, Stefan and Franciska Themersen: avant-garde filmmakers, 1989

Kasia Balon: Roman Opalka, The Art of Life for a Life of Art, 1998

Amy Chmieleski, Alina Szapocznikow’s ‘Body’ of Work: Sculptures 1953-1972, 2006

Dagmara Budzbon, Alina Szapocznikow: The Ecstatic Carnaval of Forms, 2008

Malgorzata Misniakiewicz, From Card to Community, the emergence of the Mail art network in Poland, 2011

Dorota Michalska, On the edge of History: three generations of artist confront socio-economic trauma in Poland (Tadeusz Kantor, Gerard Kwiatowksi, Roman Stańczak), 2017, curatator, Warsaw

Martyna Majewska, Sneering at avant-gardes, Sneering at Everything: why and How did Lodz Kaliska and ‘Chip-in Culture’ (Kultura Zrzuty) rebel against Polish Society and the Artistic Scene of the 1980s?, 2017 

Poland /Romania

Amanda Sarroff, A Stranger at the Door: Three Works by Jeff Wall, Mircea Cantor, and Artur Zmijewski, 2009

Anna Szkalska, Goshka Macuga: weaving narratives, making worlds, 2012

Poland / Israel 

Caroline Hoffmann, Iterating toward infinity: Roman Opalka, Amikam Toren and Michal Rovner, 2016

Romania 

Alexander Alvarez Taylor, Symptom, subversion ; the art of Ion Grigorescu, 

(BA essay) 2011

Russia /USSR 

Sophia Thompson, Power in Art, the Image of Stalin, 1993

(Currently director of art publishing, Thames and Hudson, London)

Alice de Martigny, Avant-garde Russe Moscou 73, Dina Vierny’s Soviet Artists beforeand after Glasnost, 2006

Maria Baibakova, Through the Language of Idealistic Childhood: Illustration and Ideology in Ilya Kabakov’s 10 Character Albums, 2008

Nicole Lopez, The AES+F group: Russian Nietszcheans after Postmodernity?2008

Gemma Bentley, Punk Provocation and Perestroika: Women in Soviet Rock Culture, 1983-1993, 2009

Elizaveta Butakhova, Retreat to the Country:Documenting Moscow Conceptualist Performance Practices in the environs of Moscow, 1964-1983, 2009

Jeremy Epstein, Resurrecting Malevich: Soviet, post-Soviet and contemporary, 2009

Natalia Sielewicz, Carnival of Signs, Russian Criminal Tattoos, 2009

Katarina Lichvarova, Refusing to Conform: Bureaucracy, Infantility and Psychedelia in the Work of Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, 2012

Denis Stolyarov, Buffoonery and Protest: New Wave in Soviet Unofficial Art 

1974-1985, 2014

Russia /USSR / Germany

Victoria Mikelson, Archive enthusiast: Changing Community in the work of Vadim Zakharov, 2016 

Russia/Netherlands 

Anya Harrison, Marking Time : The Moving Images of Fiona Tan and Olga Chernysheva, 2011

Russia after Perestroika

Thomas Scutt, An incident in the Museum : Rem Koolhaas at the Hermitage, 2011

Serbia

Ivana Miloradovic, A Ruptured Circle: Protests in Serbia 1996-7: Performance Beyond Politics, 2006

Marko Ilic, Stepping out: expanded encounters in Belgrade’s student cultural centre, 1973-1975, 2012

Singapore 

Eliza Tan, Mirrors at the Mouth of the Singapore River: the Spectacular Politics of Recognition and Art from Contemporary Singapore, 2007 

Slovenia 

Gaia Golija, Mending Walls on Shifting Grounds: Negotiating History and Identity Construction in the works of Marjetica Potrč, 2016

Spain

James Scarborough, Dau Al Set and Magic, sources and context, 1987

Katia Garcia Anton, Antoni Tapies: Nationality and Identity, 1993

* Director, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, 

ex director Musée d’Art Contemporain, Geneva

Brenna Karr, Equipo Cronica: Anti-Francoism and Beyond, 2008

Amanda Sroka Àngels Ribé: Cartographies of the Fragile Line: The Body (Per)formed in Space and Time, 2012

Switzerland 

Tessa Huging, Traversing borders: the gendered geographies of Ursula Biemann’s early video works, 2012

Madeleine Stoddart, Swiss/ Mecha-Swiss. An investigation into the kinetic, sonic and entropic oeuvre of Zimoun, 2015 

Taiwan

Cynthia Wu, From Cage to Cloudgate : Art Forms East/West 1947-2003, 2011

Turkey

Cagla Ozbeck, A Temporary Dweller among synonyms, Nil Yalter within the concurrent multiplicities of contemporary art in Turkey, 2017 

France / School of Paris

1985 Leah Kharibbean, Michel Tapie and Un Art Autre, (B.A report) 1985

1986 James Roberts: Japanese influence on the School of Paris: Masson, Alechinsky, Degottex, 1947-1967, (B. A report, 1986). 

1988 Kathleen Brunner, Picasso in England, 1936-1946, 1988.

Carol Vaughan, Painted Constructions in public spaces. Two commissioned works by Jean Dubuffet: ‘Groupe de Quatre arbres’ 1969-1972. ‘Jardin d’email’ 1968-1974, 1988.

1990 Leslie Rubin, The lost years: Giacometti’s return to Figuration, 1932-1937

1991 Anna Bailey, A Time of Transition. Female representation in France, 1914-1924

Emily Tsingou, Acéphale (Director, Emily Tsingou Gallery)

1992 Trudi Murphy, The International Situationniste and the problem of Art Theory Helena Papodopolous, Jean Fautrier: Figuration and non-Figuration.

*Director, Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens

Elizabeth Plessa, Henri Michaux: the Supremacy of the Head

1993 Adrian Gargett, Yves Klein: Doppelganger. (Ph.D 1997, Univ of Warwick)

1994 Amanda Lee, Writing the Body: Barthes/Requichot, Derrida/Artaud, Deleuze/ Bacon

Caroline Douglas, Henri Michaux. Madness, Mescaline and Metalanguage

* Director, Contemporary Arts Society, ex-Head, Arts Council Collection

Andrew Gellatly, Gauche Assumptions. The Art and Politics of the Extreme Left in France, 1965-1968

John Gibson, Theatre as metaphor in the works of Jean Dubuffet .

Simon Groom, Beyond Paris: Michel Tapie and the Informel Aesthetic

*See PhD, Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1995 Victoria Allen, Nouveau Réalisme/ Nouvelle Vague: Documents from the New World. (Art and Cinema in Paris, 1955-1968) 

Sophie Berrebi, Francis Ponge/Jean Dubuffet : L’Espace de la matière

Susanna Greeves, The Language of the Wall, curator, London, White Cube, 

  Isidora Papadrakis, Sacred Jazz: The Chapel of Saint-Symphorien of Pierre Buraglio though the Looking Glass of the Chapel of the Rosaire of Henri Matisse , *Director of exhibitions, British Council, Greece)

Joanna Thornberry, Niki de Saint Phalle: Tirs and Transgressions

*Director, London Lisson Gallery, ex director Timothy Taylor Gallery, 

Geraldine Williams, Music and Art: The Open Work, 1950-1958, 1995-7

1996  Carolyn Barman, César, Cars and Compressions, 1959-1969.

Tina di Carlo, Daniel Buren in situ: 1967-86

Morgan Falconer, Martial Raysse, French Exchange ( Ph.D. UCL, critic)

Inge Linder, Gina Pane: The Word Made Flesh (Curator, Magazin, Grenoble)

1998 Claire Addison, Imagining Identity / Mutilating Identity: Visual Representations of the Algerian War, 1954-1962

Atissa Dorroh, A Territory for the Imagination: Mao’s China in French Painting, 1966-1976

Mette Marcus, Light, Space, Time. François Morellet’s neon works, 1965-1995

Justin McGuirk: La fuite: cinema fantasy and memory in the work of Jacques Monory. *Chief curator, Design Museum; co-head, Design Curating & Writing, 

Design Academy, Eindhoven

Rose Silas, Crucifixion and reconciliation: the Use of Jewish and Christian imagery in Chagall’s work, 1938-1944

Jennifer Thatcher, Menace à trois: the art of Leonor Fini, Niki de Saint Phalle and Annette Messager in the context of 1970s French feminism

*writer, ecturer Stohemby’s Institute MA 

1999  Léon De Bono, Ecritures fragiles. The Crisis of masculinity in France, 1968-1981

Philippe Jarjat, Facing Fame. Gisèle Freund’s first Years in France, 1933-1940

Vassiliki Petropolou, Simon Hantai, 1999 

Carolina Söderholm, Imagination au pouvoir, Art and Revolution in France, 1965-1968 *art journalist, Sweden

Caroline Ugelstad, From Revolution to Representation: Art and Technology in France, 1968-1985, Dept Philosphy, Classics, History of Art, University of Oslo

ex-chief curator at Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway

Aurélie Verdier, Marcel Duchamp photographed (Where is the artist?)

Curator, Delegation des Arts Plastiques, Paris

PhD and currently, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

2000 Nicholas Adams, Michel Journiac, the Body in Society

Joanna Boulos, Bernard Rancillac: les années politiques

Claire Fitzsimmons, ‘Half a novelistic fiction’ Sophie Calle, a case study

Arianne Levene, ‘Le Deuil inachevée’: Art, Memory and the Holocaust

*Arianne Piper Art Advisory, ex Director NAW, New Art World, London

Katharine Lindsell, Jean Pierre Raynaud: Psycho-objects and the institution.

Catharine Petitgas, Orlan Unveiled: Peering through ‘Les Draps du Trousseau’, 1965-1980, Collector, patron Tate Modern, Whitechapel etc. Latin American focus

Claire Tançons, Daniel Spoerri: Ethnosyncrétisme 

*Guest curator, Printemps de September Toulouse 2017, carnaval expert

2001 Anthony Hudek, Museum tremens or the Mausoleum without walls : working through 

‘Les Immatériaux’ at the Centre Pompidou in 1985 *Director, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, ex-curator, London, Raven Row many publications

Elliott King, Black and white and red all over: Maoism, Fascism and contradiction in 

Salvador Dali’s’ mysticism *Assistant Professor of Art History, Washington and Lee Univerity, Lexington, Virginia. Many Dali publications

Joanna Large, All roads lead to Peking: Joris Ivens and Gérard Fromanger in 

China, 1974

Joan Lowther, The Warhol Effect in France, 1963-1971

Catharina Tesdorf, Attidudes and connections: Curating the Sixties. Pontus Hulten and

 Harald Szeeman in Paris, Stockholm and Bern

2002  Matthew Barr, Jean Pierre Raynaud. Psycho-objects and other work 1964-74: 

the order and object of madness, see PhD

Janet Clark, From Pravda to Prada. Oscar Niemeyer’s Parisian Architecture

Ludovic Dewavrin, The Yves Klein Economy

Clare Edwards, Sophie Calle, The Detachment/ Die Entfernung

Elienne Lawson, Pierre Restany, Janine de Goldschmidt and the Galerie J, 1961-66:

 the art of making Nouveau Réalisme

Naomi Skelton, Ruth Francken: La coupure et la cohérence, writer

2003 Claudine Albert, ‘La femme photographiée’: Documenting the Masculine Gaze in France, 1968-1980

Katie Brandon, The Death of the Author and the Rebirth of the Book: The livres d’artiste of Ruth Francken, Jacques Monory and Annette Messager (PhD Manchester)

Maud Capelle, Robert Filiou: the Deathless Dying of an Economist 

Nicholas Cullinan, Cultural exchange, Cultural Revolution. Paris, Milan and Venice, 1960-1968 

Luke Heighton, ’Car nous sommes ou nous ne sommes pas’ Gordon Matta-Clark and the labyrinth without walls (political journalist)

Sian Luyken, ‘Le corps circassien’: corporal order and disorder in French circus

Anna Reid, Mao meets Greenberg, 1966-1976. Supports/Surfaces, Narrative Figuration and Tel Quel to Macula

2004 Rakhee Balaram, ‘La Femme sacrée’: Art, Writing and the Revolution of Women in 1970s France see PhD

Lucy Bradnock, ‘Etoiles Rouges/Etoiles Vertes’: the Architecture of Jean Reynaudie at Ivry-sur-Seine (PhD, Essex) Lecturer, University of Nottingham

Ezra Konvitz. ‘Les Américains’: Seeing with the Foreign Eye, 1945-1960

Anael Pigeat, Martial Raysse’s films, ‘un sourire en plus’, editor ArtPrss, Paris

Ex-curator, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, editor Art Press.

Sarah Tennant, The American Center, Paris, 1960-1968

Claire Wylie, The Inflatable: Medium as meaning

2007 Jason Farrago, Ensembles: Art under the sign of Sarkozy.

Christopher Griffin, Michel Journiac and the dialectics of reconciliation

Ex-editor, Burlington Magazine, Collection Research Manager, Tate

Edward Franckel, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gérard Fromanger: Politics and Reproduction in the Ballet Hymnen, Amiens, 1970

Roxana Sursock, Addressing and undressing sex and crime at the Louvre : [La Peinture comme crime, Posséder et détruire, Musée du Louvre 2001-2]

2008 Paisid Aramphongphan, Perversion-Philosophy in Pierre Molinier’s Atelier-Boudoir

*PhD Harvard, 2015, Special project administrator, UNESCO, Bangkok

Robin Chung, The Parallax Effect: Heterotopian Spaces in 1960s Paris.

2016 Jessica Freemann-Attwood, Purity, Danger, Pleasure; Lea Lublin in the context of French Feminism, 1968-1983

Sandro Weilemann Excavating Spoerri: the Past, the Present and the Pastoral

Paris IV- Sorbonne, maîtrises

200 Bruno Delingette, Marchand du signe: Leo Castelli au tournant des années cinquante

Julie Estève, Orlan-Opéra en trois actes

Alexandre le Mesnil, The Cremaster cycle: de l’esthétique de la piece montée à l’oeuvre d’art 

Fanny Sigoignet, Louise Bourgeois, le fil conducteur 

Sarah Yung, Francoise Janicot, Un art entre poésie et militantisme

2004 Cynthia Benoît, Sculpture polychrome de Raymond Mason et son catalogue raisonné 

Aurore Bonneau, Julian Rosefeldt, ‘Paris: Les Cathédrales inconnus’ 

Jae-Geol Lee, L’esthétique de la violence revelée par le processus kitsch dans l’oeuvre de Paul McCarthy

Emilie Chabert, La cooperative des Malassis. Les enjeux d’un art politique

Tatiana Chipriana, Problèmes géopolitiques dans l’art contemporain 

Julie Estève, La plastination/exposition ‘les ecorchés’ de Gunter von Hagen

Sophie Ferloni, Le costume de scène des années Jean Paul Gaulthier, (1980-2000) 

Melanie Gouarier, Le Jardin de Tarots de Niki de Saint Phalle, 

Clementine Perros, Yoko Ono et ses oeuvres instructions: l’expression artistique

dématerialisée

Clarisse Taubin, Les (je)ux d’écriture, le role et les sens de l’écrit dans l’oeuvre de Sophie Calle

2004 DEA (Diplôme d’études approfondis)

Sophie Ferloni, Le mannequin : de l’objet inanimé au modèle vivant 

Katharina Teutsch, Entre Création et effacement. L’economie de l’image chez Jacques Monory

Sarah Yung, Un epiphénomène: le collectif Femmes en Lutte. Quand l’art et l’anonymat deviennent une arme.

PhDs discontinued/suspended

Sarah Bancroft, James Rosenquist.

Svitlana Biedarieva, Mexican and Soviet Olympics

Ania Bobrowicz, Female artists in the USSR/Contemporary Russia 

Alexandra Lazar, The Institutional History of the Soros Foundations and Their Role in the Cultural Discourse of the Successor States of Former Yugoslavia, 1991- 2001

Malgorzata Misniakiewicz, Mail art in South America and Eastern Europe, 1969-1989

Maeve Nolan, The Silk Road and early photography: in St Petersburg, Xian, New Delhi and Bukhara

Alina Serban, Art and Cinematography in Communist Romania, 1945-1960, (curator, Bucharest)

Preeya Seth: Contemporary Indian Art

Julie Solovyeva, Performing words: re-introduction of language into live art practices through the work of Tino Sehgal, Xavier Le Roy, Anna Collod, and La Ribot