Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern and contemporary art. His publications include Cézanne and the End of Impressionism (1984), Critical Terms for Art History (co-edited, 1996, 2003), Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné (co-authored, 2004), Doubt (2008), Between Sense and de Kooning (2011), Ellsworth Kelly: New York Drawings 1954-1962 (2014), Sensuous Thoughts: Essays on the Work of Donald Judd (2020), Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1969-2019 (2020), Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul (2022), and Writing after Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Art (2023).
Ph.D.
in History of Art, Yale, 1973
B.A.
in Architectural Sciences, Harvard College, 1965
History of art, 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary, art theory, criticism
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
Distinguished Teaching of Art History award
- College Art Association (2010)
Getty Senior Research Grant
- Getty Foundation (1996 - 1997)
National Humanities Center Fellow
- National Humanities Center (1986)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985 - 1986)
Mellon Fellow in the Humanities
- University of Pennsylvan ia (1979 - 1980)