Dr. Nuit Banai is an art historian and critic who received a PhD in Art History from Columbia University before joining Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2007. Her research interests focus on the post-war and contemporary construction of new publics through the visual arts, especially in Europe and the Middle East. Her writings have appeared in catalogues for the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Barbican Art Gallery in London, Artists Space, Bronx Museum for the Arts, and the Americas Society in New York City.
Dr. Banai has been an invited critic at MIT, Massachusetts College of Art + Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Art Institute of Boston, Yale University, and Haifa University in Israel and has lectured at New York University, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, The Digital Art Lab for Israeli Art in Holon, l’Institut Nationale d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, The Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City, The International Center for Photography in New York City, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and The Alvar Aalto Academy in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Dr. Banai has been an invited critic at MIT, Massachusetts College of Art + Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Art Institute of Boston, Yale University, and Haifa University in Israel and has lectured at New York University, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, The Digital Art Lab for Israeli Art in Holon, l’Institut Nationale d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, The Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City, The International Center for Photography in New York City, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and The Alvar Aalto Academy in Jyväskylä, Finland.
She served as Assistant Editor of the journal RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2002-2005), is a regular contributor to Artforum International, a Contributing Editor for Art Papers, and has written forArt Journal, Frieze, Modern Painters, and Time Out New York. Most recently, she contributed catalog essays to the exhibition “Arturo Herrera: Les Noces” at the Americas Society in New York (2011), “Vlatka Horvat: As Opposed to the Front, Back, Top and Bottom” at Bergen Kunsthall (2011) and to the Singapore Bienniale: Open House (2011). An essay titled “Simulating Iraq: Cultural Mediation and the Effects of the Real,” is forthcoming in the journal Public Culture. Dr. Banai recently completed a manuscript on Yves Klein for the Critical Lives series published by Reaktion Books.
