Griselda Pollock is a feminist, postcolonial and social art historian and curator. Professor emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds where she founded and directed the transdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (2001-21), initiated the MA programme in Feminism and the Visual Arts (1992-2003). Recipient of 2020 Holberg Prize, she has been awarded the 2023 CAA Life-time Achievement Award for Writing on Art, 2010 CAA Distinguished Feminist Award for Promoting Equality in Art and the 2024 Nessim Habif World Prize (Geneva). Classic texts include Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology with Rozsika Parker (1981; 4th edition: 2022 Bloomsbury, trans. in French, Spanish,  Polish 2023-25) and Vision and Difference (1988/2021). Recent publications of significance included CharlotteSalomon in the Theatre of Memory (Yale University Press, 2018), Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting (Manchester University Press, 2022) and WOMAN IN ART: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944 (Yale University Press, 2023), and Medium & Memory (HackelBury Fine Art, 2023).Forthcoming is Marilyn Monroe at Work (Bloomsbury, 2026) 

Photo: Griselda Pollock, credit University of Leeds.