Joanna Frueh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Joanna Frueh

performance artist and feminist scholar

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1948

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: university teacher, performance artist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Joanna Frueh (born 1948) is an artist, writer and feminist scholar.
In 2008 she was awarded a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her book Monster Beauty: Building the Body of Love, dealing with the aesthetics of beauty, pleasure and the erotic in everyday life was published by the University of California Press.
Her writing combines theory with autobiography, photography, and poetry to develop these concepts.
She is also a performance artist.
Frueh received her Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago in History of Culture.
She is Professor of Art History Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she served from 1990 to 2006.
Prior to that she was Assistant Professor of art history at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, (1983-1985) and the University of Arizona, Tucson (1981-1983).
She has authored and edited several books, notably Erotic Faculties (University of California Press, 1996) and Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective (1989); and coeditor of Picturing the Modern Amazon (2000), Feminist Art Criticism: Art, Identity, Action (1994), and Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology (1991).
She has written articles and reviews for Art in America, Art Journal, AfterImage, High Performance Magazine, and New Art Examiner, among others.