Michael Hatt (born 1960) is professor of art history at the University of Warwick.
Hatt completed his BA in art history at Birkbeck College, University of London, while working as a civil servant.
He was a co-curator with Jason Edwards and Martina Droth, of Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901, an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in 2014 that transferred to Tate Britain in 2015.
[5][6] In a review of the exhibition for 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Clare Walker Gore praised Hatt and Edwards for not pandering to modern taste in sculpture by including only those works that modern critics approve of, "choosing instead to showcase a broad range of works, ranging from those likely to charm modern viewers to those likely to appal, and often placing them side by side.
"[7] Philip Ward-Jackson in Sculpture Journal, however, criticised the curator's selection of objects and accompanying catalogue which he felt had a lack of coherence due to being jointly written.