Blake Oetting is a Postdoctoral Fellow between the Art History and Rhetoric departments and Curatorial Fellow at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He received his PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2025) and his BA from Swarthmore College (2018). In 2023-2024, he was a Critical Studies participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Oetting’s current book project focuses on the development of Institutional Critique practices at the end of the twentieth century. It showcases how artists—including Renée Green, Tom Burr, Adrian Piper, Andrea...
