Jacques Leenhardt

Jacques Leenhardt is an art critic, curator, and author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary artists. He is director of social sciences at the École des Hautes Études (Paris), honorary chairman of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), and founding member of the Archives de la Critique d'Art (GIS, Rennes). The Les Amis de Wifredo Lam association, which he has chaired since 1989, published a catalogue raisonné of Wifredo Lam's paintings and engravings which guided his own...See more

Jacques Leenhardt is an art critic, curator, and author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary artists. He is director of social sciences at the École des Hautes Études (Paris), honorary chairman of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), and founding member of the Archives de la Critique d'Art (GIS, Rennes). The Les Amis de Wifredo Lam association, which he has chaired since 1989, published a catalogue raisonné of Wifredo Lam's paintings and engravings which guided his own monograph on the artist. A fellow member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, he has also been a visiting professor to various universities in the United States, Germany, and Brazil. See less