Joanna Fiduccia is an art historian, critic, and Assistant Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, where she studies the creative practices behind modern struggles for representation. At Yale, she specializes in European and American modernism and the historical avant-garde, with a focus on the politics and theory of twentieth-century sculpture. Her teaching and research interests include scale; theories and problems of figuration; the history of attention; ornament and abstraction; twentieth-century representations of gender and race; technologies of modeling and simulation; and experimental research practices. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA, and previously taught art history and humanities at Reed College. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Society of French Historians, the UCLA Center for European Studies, and the Brown Foundation. 

Co-founder and editor of the journal of art history apricota, she is the author of essays and reviews on contemporary art for publications including Artforum, Spike Art Quarterly, East of Borneo, and Parkett, as well as numerous catalogues. Her curatorial projects include “Coquilles Mécaniques” (CRAC Alsace, 2012) and “The Third, Meaning” (Frye Art Museum, Seattle, 2022). She is also a member of the research collective ESTAR(SER) and a frequent collaborator of the Friends of Attention, a group of artists, scholars, and activists concerned with forms of attention that resist financialization. She is completing her first book, Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism, which explores the convergence of artistic and political crises in the sculpture of Alberto Giacometti during the 1930s and 40s.

Joanna can be contacted at joanna.fiduccia@yale.edu