Website of Katy Deepwell

Katy Deepwell is Professor of Contemporary, Art Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University.
She is the founder and editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal and Managing Editor of KT press.
This website profiles her writing as an art critic and art historian.

In 2021, Katy Deepwell received the Distinguished Feminist Scholar Award from College Art Association.
She has been a Leverhulme Fellow (2008-2009) and undertaken scholar and critic in residencies in
Die Höge, nr. Bremen; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), Suomenlinna, Helsinki.

Prior to joining Middlesex, she worked as Head of Research Training and
Reader in Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at UAL, London (2004-2010)
and she was a Research Fellow at University of Ulster (1999-2002).
She has taught art theory/art history at many colleges and Universities in the last thirty years,
including periods of employment at Malmo Art Academy (Visiting Professor, 2018-2019),
UMPRUM/AVU Prague (Erasmus scheme, 2018); Roehampton, London (2004); University of Copenhagen (1998);
Oxford Brookes University (1997-1998); Goldsmiths College (1989-1995),
Canterbury and Maidstone, Kent Institute of Art and Design (1986-1992).
She gained her PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London (1992);
MA Social History of Art, Leeds University and BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting) from St Martins.
She is a Principal Fellow of Higher Education Academy (PFHEA, 2013-present)
and holds a APMP qualification (Association of Project Managers, IPMA level D Certification, 2010).

She has held several (voluntary) management positions in the arts sector:
as Chair of Trustees of Women’s Art Library (1989-1994)
when it was a national charity employing six people.
She has been President of the British Section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA, 1997-2000)
as well as working internationally within this UNESCO NGO on the international board
and is a member of AICA, UK.

Throughout her career, she has organised many major international conferences, starting with her work
for the Women Art Change movement in the mid-1980s while still a student. For WASL, she took part as a representative
at the International Association of Women Artists at the Women's Museum in Bonn in 1989 and in Glasgow in 1990.
She organised the Feminist Art Criticism conference to celebrate the first 10 years of Women's Art Library at Morden College in 1992.
In 1996, she organised the Art Criticism and Africa conference with critics from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa.
In 1999-2000, she fund-raised for the International Congress of AICA when it came to London.
Most recently she organised a series of conferences for Create/Feminisms research cluster at Middlesex University including:
Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art (Middlesex, Sept 2024);
De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms (Middlesex, online seminar series,2022);
Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Middlesex, July 2018);
Local/Global Dynamics in Feminism and Contemporary Art (Middlesex, July 2017);
and ‘Misogyny: Witches and Wicked Bodies’ (ICA, 2015).
Before she joined Middlesex, she organised a series of public Feminist Art Seminars at the ICA in 2011-2012.