Natasha Degen is Professor and Chair of Art Market Studies. She earned an AB from
Princeton University and a MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she
studied as a Gates Scholar. She is a recognized writer and critic, having contributed
to publications including The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The New York Times,
Artforum and frieze, and serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal
for Art Market Studies. Among other prizes, she received a $30,000 art criticism award
from the Andy Warhol Foundation and a Luce Scholarship which sent her to Beijing for
a year. She edited The Market (MIT Press, 2013), an interdisciplinary anthology tracing
the art market's interaction with contemporary practice.