Katy Deepwell is a feminist art critic and academic, based in London. She is the founder and editor of , published since 1998 by KT press. She founded KT press as a feminist not-for-profit publishing company to publish the journal and books on feminist art. The journal was part of the Documenta 12 Magazines Project in 2007. n.paradoxa is an art magazine which publishes articles on women artists from around the world. She was President of the British Section of AICA, 1997–2000. She was Chair of Trustees of Women's Art Library, London, 1989–1994, a national charity and library on women artists which closed in 2002. Her work has been centred on the promotion of feminism in relation to the visual arts and art criticism.
Deepwell is currently Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University. Katy Deepwell has taught for over twenty years in Universities. Her last post was as Reader in Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism and Head of Research Training at University of the Arts London. She has worked as a lecturer teaching art history and art theory in universities including Goldsmiths' College, Oxford Brookes University, Kent Institute of Art and Design and University of Copenhagen since 1986. She was a Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2008–2009.
Publications and editorial works
Editor of Feminist Art Manifestos: An anthology https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PBBVLQU
Women Artists in Britain Between the Two World Wars: 'A Fair Field and No Favour'
Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland.
The Gender, Theory and Art Anthology: 1970–2000
Editor of Women Artists and Modernism.
Editor of Art Criticism and Africa
Editor of New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies
'Claims for a Feminist Politics in Painting' in Anne Ring Petersen Contemporary Painting in Context pp. 139–160
'Cooling out on Post-Feminism' in Sabine Schaschl, Bettina Steinbrugge, and Rene Zechlin Cooling Out: On the Paradox of Feminism
Mehr also sieben dringender Fragen zum Feminismusí in Gisela Weimann Geteilte Zeit: Fragen und Antworten. Text in German and English. pp. 237–243
* Republished as More than seven urgent questions for feminism online in English in n.paradoxa issue 20 online, April 2008
'Women War Artists in the First World War in Britain' in Karen Brown Agency and Mediation amongst Women Artists between the Wars pp. 11–36
'Feminist Models: Now and in the Future' in It's Time for Action About Feminism Migros Museum German pp. 43–63, English pp. 190–208
'Issues in Feminist Curation: Strategies and Practices' in Janet Marstine An Introduction to New Museum Theory pp. 64–84
'DÈfier l'indiffÈrence a la diffÈrence: les paradoxes de la critique d'art fÈministe' in Pierre-Henry Frangne & Jean-Marc Poinsot L'Invention de Critique D'Art pp. 191–205
'Women, Representation and Speculations on the End of History Painting' for N.Green and P.Seddon History Painting Reassessed pp. 131–148
'Text and Subtexts' in Binghui Huangfu Text and Subtext: Contemporary Art and Asian Women Earl-Lu Gallery, Lasalle-SIA College of Arts, Singapore. Book for International Touring Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Women Artists. Curator: Binghui Huangfu. pp. 33–41
'Curating Feminist Histories' in Power Ekroth, Tove Helander Expositioner: Antologi On Utstallningsmediet: The Exhibition as an Artistic Medium Stockholm: Konstfack, 2000 published for the Sollentuna Art Fair, Stockholm. pp. 88–96