François Aubart

Jacqueline Lichtenstein CFHA-Clark Fellow

Summer 2026-2027

François Aubart holds a PhD in aesthetics and is an art critic, exhibition curator, and publisher. He teaches art history and theory at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. In 2022, he was the co-curator of the dual exhibition Judith Hopf: Energies at Le Plateau–FRAC Île-de-France and at Bétonsalon in Paris. In 2025, he organized Divided Self, a non-chronological retrospective of Susan Hiller’s work at the Centre d’art de Bienne in Switzerland. Aubart is the author of two books: Bovary (Les Pérégrines, 2025) explores representations of the heroine invented by Gustave Flaubert in the arts and in cinema, and L'Attitude de la Pictures Generation – Excès, passion et manipulation (Presses du réel, 2023) focuses on a generation of artists who, from the late 1970s onward, created works by reproducing images from mass media. Aubart is also the co-author, with François Piron, of Ce que Sylvère Lotringer n’écrivait pas (Paraguay, 2022), an interview with the founder of Semiotext(e). Together with Camille Pageard, François Aubart founded the publishing house Même pas l’hiver.