Laurence Bertrand Dorléac


Laurence Bertrand Dorléac is a French art historian specializing in contemporary art, a professor and an author.

Biography

Bertrand-Dorléac has a doctorate in art history and archeology from Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and a doctorate in history from the Instituts d'études politiques in Paris, and has been advising doctoral students since 1995. She is an art history professor at Sciences Po where she leads the Art et Sociétés and La Lettre Seminaire. She is a researcher at the Centres d'Études de Sciences Po, and was appointed to the Institut Universitaire de France in 1990.
She is co-curator with Jacqueline Munck of the exhibition L’art en guerre, France 1938-1947, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2012, and the Guggenheim in Bilbao in 2013. She also led the production of the catalogue Paris-Musées La Fabrica. She is also co-curator with Maurice Fréchuret of the exhibition Exils, Musées nationaux Fernand Léger and Marc Chagall, 2012, and general commissioner of the exhibition Les désastres de la guerre 1800-2014, at Louvre-Lens, from May until October 2014, in addition to being responsible for the catalogue, which was published by Louvre-Lens/Somogy.
Bertrand-Dorléac also founded the art history department and directed the Faculty of Arts at Amiens from 1995-2000. She co-founded with Xavier Douroux, the book series Œuvres en sociétés with the publishing house du réel, 2007. Currently she is co-director with Thomas Kirchner, of the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, specifically the program of art in the world, and art in Paris after 1945, 2014.
She was awarded both the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 2013.

Committees chaired

She has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics since 1993, and she sits on many committees. Please see the list below.