Matthew Israel

Matthew Israel Curator at Large at Artsy (Artsy.net) and Director of Artsy OnSite, a global series of artist and curator talks and conversations. Previously at Artsy, he was Director of The Art Genome Project. His first book, Kill for Peace (2013), focused on American artists’ engagement with the Vietnam War. In his sixteen years in the New York City art world, Israel has written for various international art magazines and exhibition catalogues, delivered talks around the world about modern and contemporary art and his work at Artsy, worked for prominent galleries, managed major artist estates and foundations, and taught modern and contemporary art at New York University, where he received a PhD in Art History and Archaeology in 2011. His website is matthewisrael.com.