Name Card
rp02559 picture

Professor Steinberg, Monica Lee

Title:
Assistant Professor

Faculty:

Contact Information
rp02559 picture
Office:

Professor Steinberg, Monica Lee

Title:
Assistant Professor

Faculty:

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
2016The Graduate Center of the City University of New YorkPh.D. Art History
Biography

Monica Lee Steinberg received a PhD in Art History from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, joining SMLC in 2019 as an assistant professor. She teaches classes on modern and contemporary art as it intersects with technology, law, and the market, and student assignments frequently involve the realization of creative projects.

Dr. Steinberg’s research considers art, new media, and law of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with a specific focus on fictional attribution, crime, and humor in a global context.

Her writing has appeared in journals including but not limited to: Crime, Media, Culture | Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art | Grey Room Art Journal | Art History |American Art | Oxford Art Journal Archives of American Art Journal.

She has also contributed to exhibition catalogues such as: The University of Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum’s Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest | The Venice Biennale’s Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours | Yarat Contemporary Art Space’s The Commonist | The Imago Mundi Collection’s Azerbaijan: The colors of wind and fire | The National Academy’s The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006.

For a list of publications, digital humanities projects, and other endeavors, see: msteinberg.art

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2023-02-23HKU Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme
Teaching Accomplishment
2022-08-01Arts Faculty Research Award for Junior Tenure-Track Professoriate Staff (outstanding item of research output): Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2022-06-01Publication Grant (2022): Association for Art History
Research Achievement
2020-12-01The William R. Levin Awards for Research in the History of Art: SECAC
Research Achievement
2020-06-01Publication Grant (2020): Association for Art History
Research Achievement
2020-06-01Research Travel Grant to the United States: Terra Foundation for American Art
Research Achievement
2019-02-01Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) Professional Travel Grant: Association of Historians of American Art
Research Achievement
2019-05-01Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Research Achievement
2019-04-01Conference Bursary for Early Career Researchers: Association for Art History
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
05/2004-presentMemberSoutheastern College Art Association (SECAC)
07/2015-presentMemberAssociation for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP)
09/2018-presentMemberAssociation for Historians of American Art (AHAA)
07/2011-presentMemberCollege Art Association (CAA)
09/2018-presentMemberArt Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)
12/2018-presentMemberAssociation for Art History (AAH)
07/2020-presentMemberSociety of Contemporary Art Historians
02/2015-presentMemberCentral Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
07/2020-presentMemberSociety of Contemporary Art Historians
Media Contact Directory
Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Modern and Contemporary Art
Art and Pseudonymity
Art and New Media
Art and Law
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English英語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English英文
Loading Content...Please Wait!
Loading Content...Please Wait!
Loading Content...Please Wait!
Loading Content...Please Wait!
Loading Content...Please Wait!
Loading Content...Please Wait!
Loading Content...Please Wait!