David Batchelor

Senior Tutor
School of Humanities
Department of Curating Contemporary Art

Currently Senior Tutor in Critical Theory in the department of Curating Contemporary Art, and previously AHRB Research Fellow (2001-2004). David Batchelor studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham (1975-78), and Cultural Theory at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University (1978-80). He has exhibited widely in the UK, continental Europe, the United States and Latin America; written two books, Minimalism (1997) and Chromophobia (2000), and contributed to a number of journals including Artscribe, Frieze, and Artforum. David is a member since 2002 of Tate Britain Council, an advisory body on development and programming at Tate Britain.