Dr Anthony White

Senior Lecturer, Art History
School of Culture and Communications, University of Melbourne


Anthony White is Senior Lecturer in Art History in the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Lucio Fontana: Between Utopia and Kitsch (MIT Press, 2011) and, with Grace McQuilten, of Art as Enterprise: Economic and Social Engagement in Contemporary Art (IB Tauris, 2016). His writing on modern and contemporary art has been published in Art Bulletin, Artforum, Art Journal, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Grey Room, October, and Third Text. In 2014 he was elected President of The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. From 2000 - 2002 he was Curator of International Painting and Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia and has held visiting appointments at The Centre for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. C. (2006), and the Humanities Research Centre at The Australian National University, Canberra. (2005). He has received research funding from the Australian Research Council, The Ian Potter Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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