Meredith Martin is professor of art history at New York
University and the Institute of Fine Arts and a founding editor
of Journal18. She received her PhD from Harvard and her BA
from Princeton. A specialist in early modern French art and
empire, she is the coauthor (with Gillian Weiss) of The Sun King at Sea: Maritime
Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France (Getty, 2022), which won the Leo
Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, the David F. Pinkney
Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies, and the Kenshur Prize from
the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The French edition, Le Roi-Soleil à la
mer: Art maritime et galériens dans la France de Louis XIV, was published in 2022,
and she and Dr. Weiss are organizing an exhibition related to the book for the
Institut du monde arabe in Paris.
Martin is also the author of Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette (Harvard, 2011) and a coauthor of Meltdown! Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy (Brepols, 2020), which is related to an exhibition that she co-curated for the New York Public Library. Together with Phil Chan, Martin reimagined and restaged a lost French ballet from 1739 known as the Ballet des Porcelaines, which premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2021 and was performed throughout the US and Europe in 2022. She is currently working on a multimedia collaborative project that explores links between Haiti/Saint-Domingue and the Paris art world during the late eighteenth century.
Martin is also the author of Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette (Harvard, 2011) and a coauthor of Meltdown! Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy (Brepols, 2020), which is related to an exhibition that she co-curated for the New York Public Library. Together with Phil Chan, Martin reimagined and restaged a lost French ballet from 1739 known as the Ballet des Porcelaines, which premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2021 and was performed throughout the US and Europe in 2022. She is currently working on a multimedia collaborative project that explores links between Haiti/Saint-Domingue and the Paris art world during the late eighteenth century.
