Christopher Lyon
Christopher Lyon

Title: Publisher, Lyon Artbooks; Art Historian and Critic

Institution: Lyon Artbooks

Discipline: Creative & Performing Arts

Appearances: 1

Notable: Author of Nancy Spero: The Work (Prestel, 2010), the standard monograph on the artist; editor of David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1932-1965 (Yale, 2021); initiated Bookforum's Artful Volumes column; former senior publications editor at MoMA

Biography

Christopher Lyon is an art historian, critic, editor, and publisher who spent ten years as a writer/editor and senior publications editor at the Museum of Modern Art. He attended NYU's Institute of Fine Arts and subsequently served as an acquiring editor for major publishers including Little, Brown; Rizzoli; Abbeville Press; and Prestel, and his critical writings have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, and Hyperallergic.

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