Rosalind E. Krauss

Rosalind E. Krauss was born in Washington D.C. She grew up in the area, visiting art museums with her father. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1962, then did graduate studies in the Department of Fine Arts (now Department of History of Art and Architecture) at Harvard University, receiving her Ph.D. in 1969. It was published in book form as Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith in 1971. She contributed articles to art journals, beginning by writing the "Boston Letter" for Art International and then working as an editor at Artforum. She left Artforum in 1974 and co-founded the journal October with Annette Michelson and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe in 1976. October published essays on post-structuralist art theory, Deconstructionist theory, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism. Prof. Krauss taught at Wellesley, MIT and Princeton before joining the faculty at Hunter College in New York in 1974. She was promoted to professor in 1977 and was also appointed professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. She held the title of Distinguished Professor at Hunter until she left to join the Columbia University faculty in 1992. In 2005, she was named to the highest faculty rank of University Professor. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and of the Institute for Advanced Study. She has served as the curator of many exhibitions at leading museums, among them exhibitions on Joan Miró at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on surrealism and photography at the Corcoran Museum of Art, and on Richard Serra at the Museum of Modern Art. She prepared an exhibition for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris called "Formlessness: Modernism Against the Grain" in 1996. She has published more than a dozen books in her career. She has received numerous awards and honors, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.