Susan Best

Susan Best is an art historian, with expertise in critical theory and modern and contemporary art, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her book Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde (I.B Tauris, 2011) won the Australian and New Zealand Art Association prize for best book, and Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) was joint winner of the Best Book prize of the Australian and New Zealand Art Association. Her most recent book is It’s Not Personal: Post 60s Body Art and Performance (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). She is currently working with Australian contemporary artist Dr. Bianca Beetson on a history of Indigenous art in South East Queensland.