Sarah Wilson is Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary art at The Courtauld, University of London, following her MA there and a BA in English Literature at the University of Oxford. A close relationship with the Centre Georges Pompidou, and Sorbonne University, Paris, has extended throughout her career.
She was principal curator of Paris, Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968 (Royal Academy London, Guggenheim Bilbao, 2002-3) and Pierre Klossowski, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2006, touring to Cologne and Paris. In 2015 she was a curator of the Ist Asian Biennale / 5th Guangzhou Triennale at the Guangdong Museum of Art, and was awarded the AICA prize for her distinguished contribution to art criticism.
Her books include The Visual World of French Theory; Figurations, 2010, French 2018, and Picasso / Marx and Socialist Realism in France, 2013.
In 1997 Sarah Wilson was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by the French government for services to French culture.