Moran Sheleg

Moran Sheleg specialises in Modern and Contemporary art, with a focus on discourses surrounding abstract painting and, more recently, mid-twentieth century drawing and its expansion off the page. She completed her PhD at UCL in 2017. Her writing has featured in several academic journals, including Oxford Art Journal and Journal of Contemporary Painting, as well as in publications by Tate Research and White Cube, and exhibition catalogues.

Moran edited the collected volume Lifework: On the autobiographical impulse in contemporary art, writing and theory (Manchester University Press, 2024) and is completing a monograph on the artist Ad Reinhardt and his relationship with art history as both a discipline and a concept (MIT Press, forthcoming).

She was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her current project on the work of Saul Steinberg and its ongoing relevance for the conceptualisation of modernism.