Katy Deepwell is a freelance art critic, based in London.
Personal website : https://katydeepwell.com
She was the founder and commissioning editor of n.paradoxa:international feminist art journal (1998-2017). She is owner and managing director of KT press (founded in 1998). KT press publishes books and ebooks on contemporary women artists. KT press series of print publications includes a collection of major interviews: Conversations on Art, Artworks and Feminism (2025); (ed) 50 Feminist Art Manifestos (2022) and (ed) De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Craft (2023).
She was President of AICA, British Section (1997-2000).
She was one of the organisers of the ‘Art Criticism and Africa’, AICA conference in London in 1997 which resulted in a book she edited of the conference papers (Saffron Press, 1998).
In 2023, she edited a special issue of Arts (MDPI) on ‘Beyond/Around Feminist Aesthetics’. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/around_beyond_feminist_aesthetics
She is the author of more than 10 books of contemporary art criticism and art history: including (ed) Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms’ (Valiz, 2020).
(co-edited with Agata Jakubowska) All-Women Spaces in Europe in the Long 1970s (Liverpool University Press, 2018)
Women Artists between the Wars (Manchester University Press, 2010).
and New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies (Manchester University Press, 1995).
More about her extensive publications here
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She has taught in many different Universities and art schools in the UK and abroad since the late 1980s. She was Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University, (2013-Feb 2025); Head of Research Training (UAL, 2004-2010); Research Fellow at University of Ulster (1999-2002).
She is the widow of Joseph Backstein, critic and curator, (1945-2024) whose work is documented here: https://www.josephbackstein.com