Mitchell Herrmann

Mitchell Herrmann studies modern and contemporary art with particular interests in ecology and the environment, media and technology, and critical theory. He is a 2025-6 recipient of the Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship and in the fall of 2025 will be a Mellon Fellow for Civic Engagement at Sarah Lawrence College, where he has also taught as Guest Faculty. As a Marshall Scholar, he completed an MA in Philosophy of Art at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University in London. He has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Yale University Art Gallery and was a 2023-4 Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His academic writing, art criticism, and occasional translation have appeared or are forthcoming in October, Art Journal, Diacritics online, Texte zur Kunst, and MoMA Magazine. His dissertation proposes a posthumanist reconstruction of the theoretical tradition of natural aesthetics through the practices of contemporary artists working with nonhuman life.