Isobel Harbison
I am a writer and art historian, and I lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. I write about art and culture, about images and what they do to us.
I have contributed to a range of magazines, newspapers and journals including the Financial Times, the LRB, the London Magazine, The Baffler and Tolka. I regularly give talks at museums and galleries and occassionally programme events and film screenings, previously at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the National Gallery, the Hayward, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Belfast Film Festival. In 2014, I was awarded a Fellowship in Arts Journalism by the UK’s Arts Foundation and have since been awarded writing residencies and research fellowships in the US, UK and Ireland. In 2023, my writing was shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award, 2024. The same year it was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
My first book, Performing Image, is about art and social media and was published by the MIT Press in 2019. Link here
My second book, about women, night, light and power in post-war Las Vegas, will be published by MUP in 2026. More here
I am now writing my third book.
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Email: i.harbison at gold.ac.uk
Instagram: @isobel.harbison
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