Natasha Degen

Education

AB, Princeton University
MPhil, PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Biography

Natasha Degen is Professor and Chair of Art Market Studies. She is a recognized writer and critic, having contributed to publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Artforum, and frieze. Her books include Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol (Reaktion Books, 2023) and The Market (MIT Press, 2013). She also serves on the boards of The International Art Market Studies Association and the Journal for Art Market Studies.

Among other prizes, Degen 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 earned an AB from Princeton University and a MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Gates Scholar.