Sydney Picasso

Sydney Picasso has been writing about modern and contemporary art, archaeology and style for many years. She is the co-author, notably, with Claude Francois Baudez, of Lost Cities of the Maya, Gallimard, 1986. She also wrote Picasso, as if I were a Signature, Hachette, 1996, and The Invention of Paradise: The Photographs of Paul-Emile Miot, Edition Daniel Blau, 2008. For many years she wrote for French Vogue on contemporary art, as well as for Contemporaine, Art Press, and has contributed many essays such as The Muse: Francesco Clemente, and Picasso, A Contemporary Dialogue, Andy Warhol, The Polo Paintings, Editions Thaddaeus Ropac, Ombres Portees, Porteurs d’Ombres: Three Mexican Artists, Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris. She co-translated John Russell’s Francis Bacon, and recently, Bite by Fabrice Hergott, in Cained and Abled: The Chapman Brothers. Recently a text on Oceanic Fish Hooks, A Small Philosophy of Ones in Fish Hooks of the South Pacific, Editions Hirmer, 2012, From Silverpoint to Silver Screen in Andy Warhol Drawings 1950's, Hirmer, 2013, and Body of Proof in Su Xiaobai, Hong Kong, 2014. She was Adjunct Director of the Musee d’Art and Histoire in Meudon, and a member of URA 5 CNRS, and RCP 394 Recherches sur les Societes Amerindiennes, et sur l’Art Rupestre. She was a Research assistant at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She was President of la Societe du Jeu de Paume (1997-2004) and is presently a board member of the Amis du Festival d’Automne de Paris, the Prix de Dessin Daniel et Florence Guerlain, and was awarded Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1999. She is also a member of the International Councils of Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a Trustee of the China Art Foundation, UK.