Dr Lucy Bradnock

As Dean for Research, I lead The Courtauld’s strategic research agenda.

I am a specialist in modern and contemporary art in the United States, with a particular focus on art histories of California and the American West; ecological and infrastructural histories of American art and cultural labour; the intersection of art, activism, and radical theatre practice; and alternative sites and networks of artistic production and dissemination. I am co-lead of the Courtauld ‘Art, Ecologies, Infrastructures‘ research cluster. I teach on the BA Art History degree and convene the MA Special Option American Art in the Age of Ecology.

My publications include No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud (Yale University Press, 2021), Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (edited with Courtney J. Martin and Rebecca Peabody, Getty, 2015), and Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980 (edited with Rebecca Peabody, Andrew Perchuk, Glen Phillips, and Rani Singh, Getty, 2011). My writing is also included in exhibition catalogues produced by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ICA Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Copenhagen Contemporary, White Cube, Barbican Art Gallery, and Courtauld Gallery, and in art history journals including Art History, Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal, the Getty Research Journal, and the Journal of the Archives of American Art.

I am also Editor of Art History, the journal of the Association for Art History.