Anna Lovatt

Background

About Anna Lovatt

I am an art historian whose research focuses on art of the 1960s onwards, particularly the role of drawing and diagramming in Conceptual Art, Land Art, Minimalism, and Video Art. My current project "Picturing Kinship: Relatedness in Contemporary Art" explores artistic visualizations of kinship including Catherine Opie’s family portraits, Dennis Oppenheim’s collaborative videos and Donald Rodney’s multimedia installations. These artworks are analyzed in relation to changing popular conceptions of the family and the interdisciplinary discourse of critical kinship studies. A second project, developed as the inaugural Research Fellow at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, examines the productive encounters between drawing, television and video art during the “network era.” This project will culminate in the curated exhibition "Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video," opening at the Menil Drawing Institute in October 2025. I am the author of "Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art"(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019). My articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals including Art History, Art Journal, Grey Room, October and Word and Image. Curatorial projects include "Bob Law: Ideas, Energies, Transmutations"(Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, 2020) and "Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature"(Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK; also traveled to the Parrish Art Museum, New York and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California). The edited volume "Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature"(Hatje Cantz, 2013) accompanied this major survey of Stuart’s drawing practice.