天美传媒

Modern and Contemporary Art; American Art; particular interests include conceptual art, art and technology, African American artists, twentieth-century printmaking

PhD, Art History, Emory University 2015

MA, Art History,Tufts University

BA, Art, Colby College

• Edited by Jeffrey C. Stewart. New Haven and Washington: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2023. 98-123.
• In Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s. Edited by Johanna Gosse and Tim Stott. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
• In Locating Sol LeWitt. Edited by David Areford. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.
• Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought (2020).
• In The Routledge Companion to African American Art History. Edited by Eddie Chambers. New York: Routledge (2019).
• In Hans Haacke: All Connected, exh. cat. curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari. New York: Phaidon and New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019.
• “Review of Joshua Rivkin, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly .” The Art Newspaper 315 (September 2019): 13.
• American Art 33.2 (Summer 2019).
• In Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology. Edited by Steven Duval. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University California Press 2018.
• “Impressions, Inversions, and Decomposition: The Negative Aesthetics of Cy Twombly’s Printed Graphic Work,” Print Quarterly XXXV.1 (March, 2018).
• In New Waves: Transatlantic Bonds between Film and Art in the 1960s. National Gallery of Art, 2017.
• “The Work of Jayson Musson: Representing Play, Immaterial Labor, and Mediation.” International Review of African American Art (IRAAA) 26.2 (fall 2016).
• Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 31.3 (September 2015): 213-232.
• In Beauty Born of Struggle: The African American Art World in Twentieth-Century Washington, DC. Edited by Jeffrey C. Stewart. New Haven and Washington: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2023. 98-123.

John A. Tyson is a specialist in modern and contemporary art. Tyson’s recent scholarship has addressed art in the Cold War era, text and image interactions, multiples and print portfolios, parallels between vanguard art and cinema, and modernism in Washington, DC. His current book project on the work of Hans Haacke explores the relationship between the artist’s works and concurrently emerging forms of performance, technology and politics.

Tyson serves as the President of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH). Moreover, he is the organizer of the Visual Culture Consortium Symposium of 2021 and 2022, an annual event that provides undergraduates with a platform to develop their scholarship. From 2015 to 2017, Tyson held an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art, where he worked on projects with the departments of British and American Painting, Modern and American Prints and Drawings, and Film Programs. He continues to be interested in curating and has co-curated (with colleague Sam Toabe) From Theory to Practice: Artistic Legacies of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2019) as well as Equals 6: A Sum Effect of Frank Bowling's 5+1 (2022-23) at the University Hall Gallery.

Professor Tyson’s other fellowships and awards include a a UMB College of Liberal Arts Careers/Curriculum Grant to support teaching oriented toward finding employment in the humanities (2020-21), a Henry Luce/ American Council of Learned Societies American Art Dissertation Fellowship (2014-2015), a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (2011-12), and a National Committee for the History of Art CIHA Travel Fellowship (2012). In 2008, he was a teaching fellow at Harvard University; additionally, he has taught classes for MFA students at George Washington University and the Pratt Institute.

Courses Taught

• ART 250: Art of the Twentieth Century
• Art 310: Special Topics: History of Modern Prints
• ART 368: History of Photography
• ART 375: Contemporary Art: c. 1989-Present