Briony Fer is Professor of Art History at University College London and has published extensively on 20th century and contemporary art. At the beginning of her career she was involved in producing the groundbreaking Modernity and Modernism textbooks, published jointly by the Open University and Yale University Press in 1993. She has since written on many contemporary artists, including Gabriel Orozco, Roni Horn, Vija Celmins, Ed Ruscha, Rachel Whiteread and David Batchelor. Much of her research has focused on the work of the American sculptor Eva Hesse, writing for the 2002 retrospective of the artist curated by Elisabeth Sussman at SFMOMA in 2002 and curating with Barry Rosen an exhibition of Hesse's studiowork and test-pieces at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 2008. Key publications include her books On Abstract Art (2000) and The Infinite Line (2004), Eva Hesse: Studiowork (2008) and Gabriel Orozco: thinking in circles (2013). She is currently preparing a book on the polemics of looking entitled 'As a Glass Eye'.

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