Lucy Whelan

I am a writer and an art historian. I look closely at works of art and the people who made them, and engage critically with how they have been interpreted. My aim is to reveal the telling distortions and blind spots that persist in the present, and build new feminist alternatives. I focus mostly on modern art between 1860 and 1970, especially in France.

In 2024 I was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship at Sciences Po, Paris, and previously I was a research fellow at Downing College, University of Cambridge. During my academic career, I have also held positions at the Courtauld Institute of Art, the University of York, and the Humboldt University of Berlin.

My first book, Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, was published in 2022 with Yale University Press. My other writing ranges between scholarly and public-facing.