Thierry de Duve

Thierry de Duve (born 1944) is a Belgian professor of modern art theory and contemporary art theory, and both teaches and publishes books in the field. He is an art critic and curates exhibitions.

Career He has been a visiting professor at the University of Lille III (France), the Sorbonne (France), MIT, and Johns Hopkins University, and was the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Distinguished Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art in Penn's History of Art Department. He was the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at New York University for the fall semester of 2013. He was the 2015 Theorist in Residence for the CalArts MA in Aesthetics and Politics Program during the fall semester. In 2016, he was appointed Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor and Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York.

He has also been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on four separate occasions since 1995.

Personal life He is the son of biochemist Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize winner for his discovery of lysosomes.

Curating Look-100 Years of Contemporary Art (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2002) Belgium Pavilion for the Venice Biennial (2003)