ABOUT ME

Tapped as the “accomplished young art historian” by Johanna Fateman in The New Yorker, Andrianna Campbell-Lafleur specializes in modern and contemporary art. Her doctoral research focused on Norman Lewis and Abstract Expressionism. Alongside her scholarly research, she is the author of essays and reviews on contemporary art for Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, and Frieze. In 2012-2016, Campbell-Lafleur was editor-in-chief of Shift: A Graduate Journal of Visual & Material Culture and a contributing editor to a special edition of the International Review of African American Art. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the Paul Mellon Fellowship from the Rhode Island School of Design, the Dean K. Harrison Fellowship, the Preservation of American Modernists Award, the Library Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Dia Art Foundation, the Dissertation Writing Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a Middlebury Tuition scholarship for their Language School, and The Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellowship from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC from 2016-2017. Her solo curated and collaborative exhibitions, Vanishing Points and Decenter received international press and numerous accolades in the media. In 2020, she received her PhD in Art History from The Graduate and University Center of the City University of New York. Recently she wrote two essays for award-winning museum surveys of artists such as Julie Mehretu and Jasper Johns.

Photograph courtesy Craig Blankenhorn