Howard Singerman

Howard Singerman holds the Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair of Art and Art History at Hunter College. Previously, he served as Chair and Professor of Art History in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. His career includes teaching at Barnard College, UCLA, and other institutions. He has curated major exhibitions, including Robert Motherwell and the New York School at Hunter (2015) and Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971 (2018), while authoring influential books such as Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University (1999) and Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat (2019).

Singerman’s research focuses on 20th-century American art, exhibition practices, and the intersections between art and cultural critique. He has published widely in journals like October, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, and Emergences. His recent work examines Black artists in New York’s 1969–1975 art scenes, supported by his 2020 Paul Mellon Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art.

His scholarly contributions bridge curatorial practice and academic writing, emphasizing institutional critique and the socio-political dimensions of art. Current projects include a forthcoming book analyzing underrepresented art spaces in 1970s New York.