Marek Bartelik

Dr. Marek Bartelik is the President of the US Chapter of the International Art Critics Association (AICA), Vice-president of AICA International, an art historian and art critic specializing in 20th century art and theory of art, with a Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Art History from CUNY Graduate Center. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He is the author of To Invent a Garden: the Life and Art of Adja Yunkers, The Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard (with Dore Ashton and Matti Megged), GDR/DDR: Contemporary German Painting in Portuguese Collections, East Sixth Street (a volume of poetry) and The Gentle Rain (in Polish). He is a regular contributor to Artforum, for which he has written reviews from over 20 countries on five continents.

www.marekbartelik.com.