Nancy Princenthal

Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based writer whose book Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson, 2015) received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. A former Senior Editor of Art in America, where she remains a Contributing Editor, she has also written for the New York Times and many other publications. Princenthal is the author of Hannah Wilke (Prestel, 2010), and a co-author of two recent books on women artists. Her essays have appeared in monographs on artists including Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold and Alfredo Jaar. Having taught at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Princeton University; and Yale University, she is currently on the faculty of the MFA Art Writing program at the School of Visual Arts. Princenthal’s book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s will be published in October 2019 by Thames & Hudson.