RoseLee Goldberg

RoseLee Goldberg was born in Durban, South Africa. She is an art historian and curator who completed a degree in fine arts and political science at the University of the Witwatersrand before moving to London to complete a graduate degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. RoseLee is the director and chief curator of Performa, an organization that she founded in 2005 and considered one of the most innovative and impactful nonprofits working with established and emerging artists in new media around the globe. She is also an associate professor at New York University where she has taught since 1987. RoseLee’s book Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979) pioneered the study of performance art and has been published in fourteen languages.