Katy Deepwell

Katy Deepwell is a feminist art critic and academic, based in London. She is the founder and editor of ''n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal'', published 1998-2017, in 40 volumes by KT press. She founded KT press as a feminist not-for-profit publishing company to publish the journal and books on feminist art. KT press has published 8 e-books, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In Feb 2017, Katy Deepwell wrote and published a MOOC (a mass open online course) on feminism and contemporary art at. In May 2020, a second advanced course on feminist art manifestos was added to the site. The model for both MOOCs is FemTechNet’s DOCC: Distributed Open Collaborative Course.

The journal was part of the Documenta 12 Magazines Project in 2007. n.paradoxa is an art magazine which publishes articles on women artists from around the world. The journal released all articles as open access PDFs in 2018, and continued to produce The Feminist Art Observatory, listing information about contemporary women artists and feminism.

She was President of the British Section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), 1997–2000. She was Chair of Trustees of Women's Art Library, London, 1989–1994, a national charity and library on women artists which closed in 2002, now housed at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Her work has been centred on the promotion of feminism in relation to the contemporary art and art criticism. Provided by Wikipedia