Biography
Alice Centamore is a PhD student in Art History at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern and contemporary American art. Their research explores the material and literary articulations of queer communal life through poetry, prose, and experimental forms. Their interests include group aesthetics, queer rurality, alternative histories of naturalism and utopianism, transmaterialisms, trees and carpentry, and the history of cookbooks and gardens.
Alice is also an editor and occasional translator. Ongoing projects include a facsimile edition of The Blatant Image, a 1980s feminist photographic magazine, and a volume on writer and reproductive health activist Judith Arcana. They have revised translations of Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body (1973) and Across the Acheron (1985), now republished by Winter Editions, and co-translated the writings of Yvonne Rainer (Yvonne Rainer: A Reader, JRP Editions, 2026). Other editorial projects include A Something Else Reader (2022) and Fluxus Newspaper (2024), both published by Primary Information.
They have presented exhibitions, programs, and events for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; The Kitchen and carriage trade, both New York; and a forthcoming project at Caesura Unit, Easthampton, MA.
Alice holds a BA in Art History with high honors from New York University and an MA from the EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) in Paris.