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Rosalind E. Krauss

2025 Balzan Prize for History of Contemporary Art

For her outstanding scholarly achievements and her foundational role in the establishment of contemporary art as a field of research.

Rosalind E. Krauss is the holder of two degrees honoris causa: the Courtauld Institute, 2005, and Harvard University, 2011. She is currently University Professor at Columbia University. She has worked as an art critic for Art International, The New Republic, and Artforum, where she served on the editorial board. In 1976 she founded October magazine, with her colleague, Annette Michelson.

Her books include:

The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985).

The Optical Unconscious (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993).

The Picasso Papers (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998).

Willem de Kooning, Nonstop (Chicago University Press, 2015).

Bachelors (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993).

Under Blue Cup (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011).

Passages in Modern Sculpture (New York: Viking Press, 1977).

Bachelors (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999).

A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (London: Hames & Hudson, 1999).

She is currently working on Roland Barthes: Charms and Demons for Chicago University Press.

The exhibitions she has curated include Richard Serra/Sculpture (MOMA, New York, 1986), Joan Miró: Magnetic Fields (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1972) with Margit Rowell, and Formless: A User’s Guide (Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 1996) with Yve-Alain Bois.