Katherine Hunt Guinness

Katherine Guinness is a theorist and historian of contemporary art. She is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, she was Assistant Professor and Director of Art History at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), where she also served as the academic director of the downtown Gallery of Contemporary Art (or GOCA). She received her PhD from the University of Manchester and is the author of the first academic monograph on German artist Rosemarie Trockel (Rosemarie Trockel: Schizogenesis (Minnesota, 2019) and is co-author of The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube (Stanford, 2024). She has been a guest editor for CAA Art Journal Open and is the co-founder of FEARS, the Female Emerging Artist Residency Series. Katherine is interested in many topics within contemporary art, all of which she examines with a Marxist-Feminist lens. Current projects include: the relation between anesthetics and the history of aesthetic theory; nuclear disaster and apocalypse; billionaires and American feudalism, as well as ghosts.