Catherine Spencer is an art historian and writer based at the University of St Andrews, specialising in modern and contemporary art with particular interests in abstraction, photography and performance art. In 2021, she co-curated 'Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism' with Caroline Gausden, Kirsten Lloyd, and Nat Raha at Glasgow Women's Library. She is the author of Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication (Manchester University Press, 2020) and co-editor of London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–80 (Penn State University Press, 2018). Her essays have appeared in Art History, Art Journal, ARTMargins, Tate Papers, Parallax and Oxford Art Journal, and art writing in Apollo, Artforum International, Art Monthly, Burlington Contemporary, Burlington Magazine and MAP Magazine.
