Newcastle University

Michael Corris is an artist and writer on art and is currently Professor of Art and Chair of the Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas. Prior to this appointment, Corris taught for more than 19 years in universities throughout England and Wales.

Corris was a member of the Conceptual art group Art & Language (1972-1976) and a founding editor of The Fox (1975-76), Red-Herring (1977-1979) and, most recently, Transmission Annual (2009, with Sharon Kivland and Jaspar Joseph-Lester). He has exhibited internationally and his artwork and bookworks may be found in public and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Le Consortium (Dijon), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Staatsgaleri (Stuttgart), Le Musée des Beaux-Arts (Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland), Progressive Art Collection (Cleveland and Tampa), Collection Ghislain Mollet-Viéville (Paris), and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles). In 2010, Corris inaugurated the Free Museum of Dallas; a project of exhibitions, screenings and seminars that occupy his office at the Meadows School of the Arts (www.freemuseumofdallas.com)

Corris’ writings on contemporary art have been widely published in international journals and magazines, such as Art Monthly, Artforum, Art History, art+text, and are included in Alex Alberro & Blake Stimson (eds), Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (MIT Press, 1999). Recent publications include: Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Ad Reinhardt (Reaktion Books, London, 2008), Non-Relational Aesthetic (London, 2008, with Charlie Gere), and Art, Word & Image: 2,000 Years of Textual/Visual Interaction (Reaktion Books, London, 2010, with John Dixon Hunt and David Lomas).