Whitney Chadwick

Whitney Chadwick is an art historian who has published on contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, and gender and sexuality. Her book, Women, Art and Society was first published by Thames and Hudson in 1990; it is now in its fifth edition. In 2010-2011 she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, where she worked on In the Company of Women: Female Sexuality and Empowerment in the Surrealist World focusing on surrealist women artists of the 1930s and 1940s. She received her doctorate from Pennsylvania State University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg.Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University.

In addition to Women, Art and Society, Chadwick has published Leonora Carrington: la realidad de la imaginacion; Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement; Myth in Surrealist Painting; Mirror Images: Women Surrealism, and Self-Representation; and Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks. Chadwick edited with Isabelle de Courtivron, Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership; and with Tirza True Latimer edited The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris between the Wars. Her novel Framed was published in 1998.

Chadwick has published exhibition catalog essays about Maria Elena Gonzalez, Mona Hatoum, Nalini Malani, and Sheila Hicks, among others.

Chadwick received a fellowship from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; the Forum for Advanced Studies in Arts, Languages and Theology at Uppsala University, and a fellowship/residency from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.