Thierry de Duve

Thierry de Duve
Born
Belgium
OccupationProfessor

Thierry de Duve (born 1944) is a Belgian professor of modern art theory and contemporary art theory, and both teaches and publishes books in the field. He is an art critic and curates exhibitions.[1]

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Lille III (France), the Sorbonne (France), MIT, and Johns Hopkins University, and was the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Distinguished Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art in Penn's History of Art Department. He was the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at New York University for the fall semester of 2013.[2] He was the 2015 Theorist in Residence for the CalArts MA in Aesthetics and Politics Program during the fall semester. In 2016, he was appointed Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor and Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York.[3]

He has also been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on four separate occasions since 1995.[1][4]

He is the son of Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize winner for his discovery of lysosomes.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b "Thierry de Duve". Curatorial Practice. School of Visual Arts. Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor". Institute of Fine Arts. New York University. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Thierry De Duve Joins the Department of Art And Art History". Hunter College. California College of the Arts. Archived from the original on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Thierry de Duve Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Hunter College of Art. City University of New York. July 2017.
  5. ^ Gellene, Denise (7 May 2013). "Christian de Duve, scientist and Nobel laureate; at 95". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Christian de Duve Obituary". New York Times. 12 May 2013 – via Legacy.com.