Katy Deepwell


Katy Deepwell is a feminist art critic and academic, based in London. She is the founder and editor of , published since 1998 by KT press. She founded KT press as a feminist not-for-profit publishing company to publish the journal and books on feminist art.
The journal was part of the Documenta 12 Magazines Project in 2007. n.paradoxa is an art magazine which publishes articles on women artists from around the world.
She was President of the British Section of AICA, 1997–2000. She was Chair of Trustees of Women's Art Library, London, 1989–1994, a national charity and library on women artists which closed in 2002.
Her work has been centred on the promotion of feminism in relation to the visual arts and art criticism.

Early life and education

Deepwell trained as an artist at St Martins School of Art, 1982–1985. She then obtained a MA Social History of Art from University of Leeds in 1986 and a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London in 1991.

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Academic work

Deepwell is currently Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University. Katy Deepwell has taught for over twenty years in Universities. Her last post was as Reader in Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism and Head of Research Training at University of the Arts London.
She has worked as a lecturer teaching art history and art theory in universities including Goldsmiths' College, Oxford Brookes University, Kent Institute of Art and Design and University of Copenhagen since 1986. She was a Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2008–2009.

Publications and editorial works