Molly Nesbit

Molly Nesbit is a contributing editor at ''Artforum'' and a Professor of Art at Vassar College, where she writes and teaches on modern and contemporary art, film, and photography. She graduated from Vassar College in 1974 with a B.A. in Art History, and went on to receive her Ph.D. from Yale University. She taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Barnard College, and Columbia University before returning to Vassar in 1993.

She has received many awards, notably from the Guggenheim Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. In 2019 she received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art by the College Art Association.

Nesbit's work can be followed through her many articles and books. ''Atget's Sevent Albums'' (1992, Yale), ''Their Common Sense'' (2000, Black Dog Press), ''The Pragmatism in the History of Art'' (Periscope 2013, Inventory Press 2020), which forms the first volume of her collected essays; ''Midnight: the Tempest Essays'' (2017, Inventory Press) is the second; a third, ''Sustainable Aesthetics'', is planned.

In 2008 she gave the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Memorial lectures at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, to appear in book form as ''Light in Buffalo''. Provided by Wikipedia