Matthew Israel is an art historian (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University).

Currently he is the Director of The Art Genome Project at Artsy (Artsy.net).

His book on American artists’ political engagement during the Vietnam War, Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War, was published in July 2013 by University of Texas Press.

Matthew has taught modern and contemporary art history as well as critical reading and writing at New York University; Parsons, The New School for Design; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

He has also written articles for Art in America, Artforum, Frieze and ARTnews and contributed to books and catalogues for The College Art Association, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, Gagosian Gallery, Cheim & Read Gallery, and Marianne Boesky Gallery.

Additionally, Matthew has worked as the Administrator at the Peter Hujar Archive, the Director of Operations at The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation and as a research or press consultant for the New Museum, the Art Spaces Archives Project, Matthew Marks Gallery and Gagosian Gallery.