Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality
Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality
David Getsy

David Getsy

Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History, Department of Art, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
evj4uw@virginia.edu
Office Address
1605 Jefferson Park Ave
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22904
https://art.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/4401

Education

Ph.D., 2002, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
M.A., 1996, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
B.A. with Highest Honors, 1995, Oberlin College

Biography

David J. Getsy is an art historian, curator, and art writer focusing on modern and contemporary art. He has published seven books and has curated several exhibitions, and his current projects undertake archive-based recoveries of suppressed histories of queer and genderqueer art and performance. He also speaks and writes on recent developments in contemporary art, performance, LGBT issues, and cultural production.