Draft:Matthew Israel (art historian)

Matthew Israel is a curator, writer, and PhD art historian based in New York. As of 2024, he consults on strategy and research for art organizations and teaches at New York University's Graduate Program of Museum Studies. From 2011-2019, Israel was Director of The Art Genome Project and later Curator at Large and then Head Curator at Artsy. From 2021-2023, Israel was Commissions Lead (chief curator) at Meta Open Arts.

Israel is the author of three books on contemporary art: A Year in the Art World: An Insider’s View (2020); The Big Picture: Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists (2017; and Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War (2013). His writings have also been published in gallery and museum catalogues as well as art magazines such as Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Frieze, and Artsy.