2022 ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY FELLOWS AWARDS

• Thursday 19 May
• 6 – 7.45pm BST
• 1 – 2.45pm EDT
• Online event 
• The event is FREE to attend and all are welcome: Book Now 

The Association for Art History Fellows for 2022 are (clockwise from top left) Dawn Ades, Lynda Nead, Steven Nelson and Lisa Tickner:

Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex, where she taught from 1968-2008. She pioneered the study of Latin American Art and co-founded the University art collection, ESCALA. Her research has otherwise largely focused on Dada and Surrealism, and more recently on the women artists associated with these movements. Her books include Photomontage (1976/1981), Salvador Dalí (1982), André Masson (1994), Siron Franco (1996), Marcel Duchamp (with Cox and Hopkins, 2000), and Selected Writings (2015). She has organised or co-curated many exhibitions, and written, edited or contributed to their catalogues, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978); Art in Latin America: the Modern Era 1820-1980 (1989);Dalí’s Optical Illusions (2000); Salvador Dalí: the Centenary Exhibition (2004); Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents (2006); The Colour of my Dreams: the Surrealist Revolution in Art (2011) and Dalí/Duchamp (2017). Dawn is Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy, a former trustee of Tate, the National Gallery, the Henry Moore Foundation and the Freud Museum, and currently trustee of the Elephant Trust and the Estorick Collection. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2013 was made CBE for services to higher education.

Dawn Ades will be introduced by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Professor of Visual Culture and Senior Lecturer, Norwich University of the Arts.

Lynda Nead is Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on many aspects of history of art and particularly on the history of British visual culture. Her work crosses disciplinary boundaries, with interdisciplinary collaborations such as art and law in Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law. She has also explored the intermedial possibilities of art history in The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film c.1900 and, more recently, she has collaborated with film maker John Wyver to explore film as research (British Art Studies, 2020). Lynda has served on the advisory boards of many national museums and galleries and is currently a member of the Exhibitions Group of the Foundling Museum, the Museum of London Research Advisory Committee, the Modern and Contemporary Panel of the National Gallery, and is a Trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.

Lynda Nead will be introduced by Patrizia Di Bello, Professor of History & Theory of Photography and Head of Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London; and Editor-in-Chief of History of Photography.

Steven Nelson is dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. He has published widely on the arts, architecture, and urbanism of Africa and its diasporas and on queer studies. He is also professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as director of the African Studies Center and advised the university on its diversity and inclusion strategic planning. Before assuming the role of dean, he was the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Professor. Most recently, Steven has joined the Kress Foundation Board of Trustees and has been named as a member of the Society of Architectural Historian’s 2021 Class of Fellows. He earned a BA in studio art from Yale University and an AM and a PhD in art history from Harvard University.

Steven Nelson will be introduced by Lucy Bradnock, Associate Professor of Art History, Nottingham University and incoming Editor of Art History.

Lisa Tickner studied fine art before switching to art history and completing a PhD on the arts and crafts movement in 1970. She is Emeritus Professor of Art History at Middlesex University and Honorary Professor at the Courtauld Institute, where she taught from 2007-2014. Her books include The Spectacle of Women: imagery of the suffrage campaign 1907-1914 (1988), Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British art in the early 20th century (2000, shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize) and London’s New Scene: art and culture in the 1960s (2020, shortlisted for the W M Berger Prize). She is co-editor of four collections of essays on visual culture published 1993-6, and co-editor with David Peters Corbett of British Art in the Cultural Field, 1939-1969 (2012). Lisa has held visiting fellowships at Northwestern University, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute. She has served on the Humanities Research Board (now the Arts and Humanities Research Council), the British National Committee of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art, the Blue Plaques Panel of English Heritage, and as a Trustee of the Art Fund from 2010-20. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008.

Lisa Tickner will be introduced by Sarah Victoria Turner FRSA, Deputy Director and Editor-in-Chief, British Art Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.