Julia Bryan-Wilson’s research interests include questions of artistic labor, feminism, queer theory, fabrication/production, performance, visual culture of the nuclear age, photography, and textile handicraft. She will be talking about her latest book, Art in the Making: From Paint to Crowdsourcing.
Julia Bryan-Wilson is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era, UC Press, 2009, which was named a “best book of the year” by Artforum magazine, and the editor of OCTOBER Files: Robert Morris, which was published in 2013 by the MIT Press.
A scholar and critic, Bryan-Wilson has written about artists such Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Sadie Benning, the Cockettes, Simone Forti, Cristóbal Lehyt, Ana Mendieta, Yvonne Rainer, Yoko Ono, Harmony Hammond, Sharon Hayes, and Anne Wilson, in publications that include Art Bulletin, Artforum, The Craft Reader, The Textiles Reader, October, The Journal of Modern Craft, and many exhibition catalogs.