FACULTY

Jonathan Fineberg
Professor
Art History: Contemporary, Modern, Psychology of Art

fineberg@illinois.edu | website | CV

Jonathan Fineberg is Gutgsell Professor of Art History and University Scholar at the University of Illinois. He is also a trustee of The Phillips Collection in Washington, where he is director of Illinois at the Phillips. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and had research training at the Boston and Western New England Institutes for Psychoanalysis. He taught at Yale University before settling at Illinois. He is the recipient of the Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing, the NEA Art Critic's Fellowship, Senior Fellowships from the Dedalus Foundation and the Japan Foundation, and the College Art Association’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in the History of Art.

Selected Work

He has curated major exhibitions in the United States and abroad and published more than a dozen books and catalogs as well as many articles in journals ranging from Artforum to The New York Times. He specializes in modern and contemporary art, with a particular interest in emerging artists and in the psychology of creativity.

His books include:

• Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to the Gates (Yale U Press)

• The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and the Modern Artist (Princeton U Press)

• Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (Prentice Hall and The People’s University Press of Beijing)

• Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art (a Yale book and a two hour PBS television special, co-created with John Carlin)

• When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child (U.California Press)