Nathan O’Donnell is a writer, researcher, and one of the co-editors of an Irish journal of contemporary art criticism, Paper Visual Art. He is currently Research Fellow at IMMA in relation to the IMMA Collection: Freud Project; he was lead curatorial researcher on the 2019 exhibition at the museum, Life above Everything: Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats. His first book, on Wyndham Lewis’s art criticism, is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press, and his work has been published in several scholarly journals, including Modernism/modernity and British Art Studies. His creative writing has also appeared in magazines including The Dublin Review, gorse,  3: AM, The Manchester Review, Southword, and The Tangerine, amongst others. He has been awarded bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council, as well as artist’s commissions from IMMA, Dublin City Council, the Arts Council of Ireland, and South Dublin County Council. He lectures on contemporary art at Trinity College Dublin and on the MA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD, Dublin. His first solo exhibition, The Centre for Indisciplinary Research, opened at Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University, in March 2020.