Moira Roth is a feminist art historian and art critic who is Trefethen Professor of Art History at Mills College in Oakland, California. She has written extensively on contemporary art. Her collection of essays, Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, was published, with a commentary by Jonathan D. Katz, by Psychology Press, exploring the construction of masculinity and conflicting identities. She was educated at the London School of Economics in England, and received a B.A. in sociology and an M.A. from New York University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. She received the 2006 National Recognition in the Arts Award from the College Arts Association. She was interviewed for the film !Women Art Revolution.
Publications
Books
Introduction and texts, Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, 1998. In Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture Series, Amsterdam, Holland: Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, 1998 Editor, Rachel Rosenthal, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997 Editor, Abraham's Daughter: The Life and Times of Rose Hacker, London: Deptford Forum Publishing Ltd., 1996 Editor and Introduction, We Flew Over the Bridge; the Memoirs of Faith Ringgold, Little Brown, November 1995 Editor and Contributor, Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1988 Editor and Contributor, The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980, A Source Book, Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1983
Selected articles
“Interview with Suzanne Lacy”, Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists, New York: Routledge, 2012 “Villa’s Word in Collision: A Study in Four Part, 1976-2007,” Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces, San Francisco: Meritage Press, 2011 Introduction, “Martha Wilson: A Woman With a Mind of Her Own,” Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces, New York: Independent Curators International, 2011 “Suzanne Lacy: Three Decades of Performing and Writing/Writing and Performing,” in Leaving Art: Suzanne Lacy's Writings on Performance, Politics and Publics, Durham, North Carolina and London: Duke University Press, 2010, pp.xvii-x1i “Allan Kaprow’s Tree, a Happening,” Archives of American Art Journal, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC., Spring 2008 “Women’s Rights and History, 1910-2008,” in Ginger Wolfe-Suarez: As Long As I live You Will Live, Mills College Art Museum Catalog, 2008 “An Interview with John Baldessari,” edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, X-tra, vol. 8, no. 2, 2005, pp. 14–35 “An Interview with John Cage,” edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, in Etant donné, Paris, No. 6, Fall 2005, pp. 136–161 "Faith Ringgold: Putting Jones Road on the Map," Nka, Journal of Contemporary African Art, #13/14, Spring/Summer 2001. “Suzanne Lacy, Between Aesthetics and Politics”, Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists, 1991-2000, edited by Noriko Gambin and Karen Jacobson, Pasadena: Flintridge Foundation, 2000 "Of Self and History: Exchanges with Linda Nochlin" Art Journal, Fall 2000, reprinted in Aruna d'Souza, ed., Of Self and History, In Honor of Linda Nochlin, Thames and Hudson 2001. "The Aesthetic of Indifference," Artforum, November, 1977. Reprinted in And, Fall 1990. Reprinted in Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp, edited by Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012.
