Abigail Solomon-Godeau


Abigail Solomon-Godeau is an American art critic, exhibition curator and art historian.

Education

B.A. magna cum laude, University of Massachusetts
Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York

Life and work

Abigail Solomon-Godeau is an art critic and art historian who taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is now a Professor Emeritus there in the Department of History of Art & Architecture.
Solomon-Godeau has produced over one hundred works in 236 publications in 4 languages. Her writing focuses on feminist theory, photography, 19th century French art and contemporary art, and she offers a reassessment or revision of the ideas presented by the artistic 'canon' and of some of her predecessors in the history of art, such as Martha Rosler and Susan Sontag. In a 2004 essay she describes herself as among those who "intellectually came of age as postmodernists, poststructuralists, feminists, Marxists, antihumanists, or, for that matter, atheists." and later clarifies;
Her essays have appeared in journals including Art in America, Artforum, The Art Journal, Afterimage, Camera Obscura, October, Screen, and many have been collected in anthologies in various languages.
She is currently working on a book Genre, Gender and the Nude in French Art.

Exhibition curator

Among the exhibitions Solomon-Godeau has curated are;

Books