Julia Bryan-Wilson

Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Art History and LGBTQ+ Studies at Columbia University, as well as a frequent critic. She is the author of four books, most recently Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (2023). Her widely influential 2017 book Fray: Art and Textile Politics received the ASAP Book Prize, the Frank Jewett Mather Award, and the Robert Motherwell Book Award. She is also Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), where in 2024 she co-curated Histórias LGBTQIA+/Queer Histories with Adriano Pedrosa and André Mesquita. In November 2025 she will unveil two exhibitions: Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces, curated with Natalia Brizuela at the Wallach Art Gallery; and GUTSY: On Feminist Infrastructures, at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.