Dorothy Cilla Price (born 1969) is a British art historian and academic. She is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist coll ...

. She was previously Professor of History of Art at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

, and was the first woman of colour to be appointed to a Chair in Art History at a

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university. Price researches, teaches, and curates on "histories, art and thought of people of African descent", with a focus on German

modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

, German

expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

, and post-war Black British art, with a focus on women artists. In 2021, she was elected a

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Career

Price studied history of art at the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

. As Professor of History of Art at Bristol, Price was a founder member and inaugural Director of the Centre for Black Humanities. She was appointed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the Courtauld in 2021. Price has served as Editor of ''

Art History Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

'', the journal of the Association for Art History. In 2021, she co-edited a special issue with

Sonia Boyce Sonia Dawn Boyce, (born 1962) is a British Afro-Caribbean artist and educator, living and working in London. She is a Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London. Boyce's research interests explore art as a social practic ...

on Black British Modernism. In 2022, Price curated 'Making Modernism' at the Royal Academy, London, focussed on women artists working in Germany in the early 1900s.

Academic and public service

Price is a trustee of the

Holburne Museum The Holburne Museum (formerly known as the Holburne of Menstrie Museum and the Holburne Museum of Art) is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England. The city's first public art gallery, the Grade I listed building, is home to ...

, Bath and a trustee of

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. With

Chantal Joffe Chantal Joffe (born 5 October 1969) is an American-born English artist based in London.Royal Academy of ArtsChantal Joffe RA Elect , Artist , Royal Academy of Arts accessdate: 29/08/2014 Her often large-scale paintings generally depict women ...

and

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, Price served as a judge for the

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Drawing Prize 2019. She sits on the Academic Advisory Board and Exhibitions Committee of the

Royal West of England Academy The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade 2* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an exhibition program ...

. In 2019 Price founded the British Art Network subgroup on Black British Art at the

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

Paul Mellon Centre The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art is a scholarly centre in London devoted to supporting original research into the history of British Art. It was founded in 1970 and endowed by a gift from Paul Mellon. Since 1996, it has been si ...

. She is a continuing member of the British Art Network Steering Group in 2021–2022.

Selected publications

* ''Representing Berlin'' (2003) * ''Women the Arts and Globalization'' (with Marsha Meskimmon) (2013) * A''fter Dada'' (2013) * ''Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing'' (2018). This book project stemmed for work done as co-curator with Joffe of an exhibition at

The Lowry The Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex at Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is named after the early 20th-century painter L. S. Lowry, known for his paintings of industrial scenes in North West England. The complex ope ...

Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

in 2018. * Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price, “Decolonizing Art History”, ''Art History'' 43, no. 1 (January 2020): 8–66, doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12490.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Dorothy Living people British art historians British women art historians Fellows of the British Academy 1969 births Academics of the University of East Anglia Academics of the University of Roehampton Academics of the University of Bristol Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art Alumni of the University of Leicester