Professor Jon Bird

Department: School of Arts and Education

Contact

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8411 5143
E-mail: j.x.bird@mdx.ac.uk

Biography

Professor Jon Bird has written extensively on visual culture and contemporary visual arts.
He was a founder editor of Block and co-editor of the 'Futures: New Perspectives in Cultural Analysis' series of books (1993-96).
With Lisa Tickner, he was Series Editor for 'ReVisions: Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art', and he is Editorial Co-ordinator for the Oxford Art Journal.

Publications

Rewriting Conceptual Art (co-editor with Michael Newman, 2000)
Leon Golub: Echoes of the Read (2000)
Otherworld: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith (2003)
Hans Haacke (co-author, 2004)

He is an independent, curator of contemporary art; most recently he curated the Leon Golub retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Buffalo and Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2000-01), and 'Otherworlds: Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith' for the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2003-04).
From 1985 - 2000 he was a Trustee of Artangel.