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Owen Duffy

Owen Duffy is an art historian, writer, and curator based in New York. He is the Director of the Yeh Art Gallery at St. John's University, and has published with ArtReview, Momus, frieze, Artforum, CURA., and Art & Education, among other outlets. He has presented his research at such institutions as the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and LASANAA Live Art Hub, Kathmandu. Previously a visiting critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, and with Frame Finland, he earned his PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University where he completed a dissertation on the topic of The Politics of Immateriality and "The Dematerialization of Art." He was a member of Essex Flowers.

Features• January 25, 2019

The Picture of Terror: Contemporary Art and the Islamic State

By Owen Duffy

In January of 2015, Hito Steyerl ventured to the border between Turkey and Syria while the battle for Kobanê – a harrowing struggle between…

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Features• September 22, 2017

For Common and Decent Things: Resisting Co-opted “Collaboration”

By Owen Duffy

It’s more than working together. “Collaboration” has enjoyed a distinct currency in the twenty-first century as a buzzword that sailed from the open-office playgrounds…

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Features• September 8, 2016

Ajay Kurian’s Futures Long Since Passed

By Owen Duffy

If we are to believe artist Hito Steyerl, then ours is an age of planetary civil war. With conflict distributed across the globe, there’s…

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Reviews• June 13, 2016

Abigail DeVille Unburies Bodies at The Contemporary

By Owen Duffy

What happens to history in a black hole? Abigail DeVille’s exhibition Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You See the Stars is a dense,…

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Reviews• March 16, 2016

What Should Art “Do”? The Eccentrics’ Vital Nonsense in a Time of Crisis

By Owen Duffy

What should artists do in a time of crisis? This grave question haunted the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth-century. In the wake of…

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Reviews• January 5, 2016

Abstraction Made Political: Helena Almeida Rewrites Her Own History in Portugal

By Owen Duffy

In 1968 political turmoil and tumult reverberated throughout America, Europe, and beyond. Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm described this year as a signpost; almost every…

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