Michael Kurtz is an art critic and curator based in London.
He read History of Art at the University of Oxford, where he won the Gibbs Prize in 2019. Since then, he has held curatorial positions at Waddesdon Manor and Four Corners Gallery as well as completing a Master’s degree in the History of Photography at Birkbeck, University of London, funded by the Wallace Studentship.
His writing has appeared in e-flux, Burlington Contemporary and The London Magazine, and in 2023 he won the International Award for Art Criticism. He now works as listings editor of Art Monthly and research assistant to Michael Peppiatt.
