Anthea Callen is Professor of Art (Practice-led Research) in the School of Art, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra. She is also Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Health, University of Warwick, UK. She trained as a painter and print-maker at Birmingham College of Art and Design (UK, now Birmingham City University) before embarking on a career in art history. She spent two years researching in Paris at the Sorbonne (British Institute), gained her MA by Research in Art History from Leicester University and her PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She has received a number of major fellowships and awards and has served on important International and British national academic and scholarly bodies.

Anthea Callen is a scholar and a painter. Her expertise in art history, visual culture and the gender politics of visual representation spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, notably on France and Britain; her research specialism in nineteenth-century artists' materials and techniques means she works regularly with museum conservators and curators. As a painter she has a strong personal and professional interest in twentieth century modernism and contemporary art, especially feminist/women's art practice.

Anthea Callen lives and works in Canberra, Australia, Leamington Spa (UK) and the South of France.