(BA(Hons),  MA, PhD, GAICD)

 

Colin Rhodes is Professor and Dean, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Rhodes’ research is primarily in the areas of twentieth century and contemporary art history and theory. He has written and lectured widely on Modernism, especially Expressionism in its many forms, and Outsider Art. His books include the influential Outsider Art: spontaneous alternatives (2000), which has also been published in Spanish, French and Finnish editions, and Primitivism and Modern Art (1994), which has also been translated into French. He has a particular interest in the ways in which western art and culture has interacted with that of its perceived others, and in those cultures of production that exist in the margins of the dominant artworld. He is a regular contribitor to Raw Vision, Création Franche and The Burlington Magazine. He has a keen commitment to drawing and exhibits his own work occasionally. Current work in progress includes a book on 20th Century Art for Thames & Hudson and an Encyclopedia of Outsider Art for Chicago University Press.