Thierry de Duve (born 1944) is a Belgian professor of modern art theory and contemporary art theory, and both teaches and publishes books in the field.
[1] He has been a visiting professor at the University of Lille III (France), the Sorbonne (France), MIT, and Johns Hopkins University, and was the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Distinguished Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art in Penn's History of Art Department.
He was the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at New York University for the fall semester of 2013.
[2] He was the 2015 Theorist in Residence for the CalArts MA in Aesthetics and Politics Program during the fall semester.
[1][4] He is the son of Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize winner for his discovery of lysosomes.