is a Hungarian art historian, an independent scholar. She holds a PhD in art history from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She is a senior member of Institute of Art History of HAS Research Centre for the Humanties, Budapest. Her main interest concerns Eastern and Central European modern and contemporary art, gender issues, socially engaged art, public art, critical theories, post-socialist condition and nationalism in the region.
As a researcher, she was member of the Advisory Board and researcher of Hungary of the exhibition Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe (MUMOK, Vienna, 2008-09). She was core member of the international seminar series Writing Art History in Eastern-Central Europe, organized by The Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2010-11).
She was member of the Patterns_Travelling Lecture Set, and delivered lecture entitled Writing Central European Art History. organized by World University Service (Austria), in Poznan, Belgrad, Cluj Napoca, Vienna (2008). She held a lecturer position at the Student Exchange Education Abroad Program of University of California, Budapest Study Center, (2003-09). She has had several courses at East-Central European universities, among them at New Europe College, Institute for Advance Study, Bucharest; Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava; and Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn and at CEU (Central European University, Budapest).
She has participated in several international conferencences and workshops as invited speaker and published numerous essays in collected volumes, catalogues and professional journals, including Artmargins, e-flux, Idea, Third text, springerin. She edited the anthology Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009. Budapest, 2009.
She lives and works in Budapest and in Long Island, NY.
Website: http://editandras.arthistorian.hu