Steven Henry Madoff, educator, art historian, critic, and curator, is the founding Chair of the Masters in Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He lectures around the world on subjects relating to art history, contemporary art, and art education. He has served as Senior Critic at Yale University’s School of Art; as Executive Editor of ARTnews magazine; and as President and Editorial Director of AltaCultura, a project of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
His books include Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) from MIT Press; Pop Art: A Critical History from University of California Press; Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity from Princeton University Press; and The Power of the Unseparate: Network Aesthetics and the Rise of Interdisciplinary Art (forthcoming). He has written monographic essays on various artists for museums and art institutions around the world. His criticism and journalism, which have been translated into many languages, have appeared regularly in publications, such as the New York Times, Time magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Tate Etc., as well as in ARTnews and Modern Painters, where he is a Contributing Editor. He curates internationally. Madoff is the recipient of many awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. He holds his PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.