Dorothy Price (art historian)

In 2022, Price curated 'Making Modernism' at the Royal Academy, London, focussed on women artists working in Germany in the early 1900s.

As Professor of History of Art at Bristol, Price was a founder member and inaugural Director of the Centre for Black Humanities. She was appointed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the Courtauld in 2021.

Price has served as Editor of Art History, the journal of the Association for Art History. In 2021, she co-edited a special issue with Sonia Boyce on Black British Modernism.

She is a continuing member of the British Art Network Steering Group in 2021–2022.

With Chantal Joffe and Andrew Nairne, Price served as a judge for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.

In 2019 Price founded the British Art Network subgroup on Black British Art at the Tate/Paul Mellon Centre.

Dorothy Cilla Price FBA (born 1969) is a British art historian and academic. She is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was previously Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and was the first woman of colour to be appointed to a Chair in Art History at a Russell Group university. Price researches, teaches, and curates on "histories, art and thought of people of African descent", with a focus on German modernism, German expressionism, and post-war Black British art, with a focus on women artists. In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.