Eleanor Heartney

Eleanor Heartney is a contributor to Art in America, Artnet, Brooklyn Rail and Artpress and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for such other publications as Artnews, Art and Auction, The New Art Examiner, the Washington Post and the New York Times. She received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism in 1992. Her books include: Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads 1997, Postmodernism 2001 Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art 2004, Defending Complexity: Art, Politics and the New World Order, 2006, Art and Today, 2008 and Doomsday Dreams: The Apolcalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art, 2019.

She is the co-author of the award winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art published (Prestel, 2007), The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (Prestel 2013) and Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art, (Lund Humphries 2024). Heartney is a past President of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association. In 2008 she was honored by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.