Blake Oetting

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Institutional Critique and Conceptual art from the 1960s onwards; theories of artistic labor; politics of identity and representation.

Blake Oetting received his B.A. in Art History from Swarthmore College in 2018. His dissertation traces the development of Institutional Critique practices in the 1980s and 1990s. His exhibition and book reviews have appeared in Artforum, Texte Zur Kunst, Flash Art, BOMB, November caa.reviews and The Brooklyn Rail. Past and forthcoming journal articles can be found in Nka, Criticism and Art Journal. He has curated exhibitions at Helena Anrather Gallery and 80WSE. From 2020-2021, he participated in the Mellon-Marron Research Consortium’s Study Sessions at the Museum of Modern Art. He is currently a curatorial assistant at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program and working a book about Tom Burr’s Torrington Project.