Nathan Dunne is the author of Lichtenstein and the editor of the essay collection Tarkovsky. He has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Boston Globe, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Catapult and Artforum. He has reported stories from four continents on a range of cultural and historical topics, from a museum in Armenia to a heavy metal band living in the Simpson desert.

He appeared as an expert in the documentary film Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation, released in 2022. The film is available on multiple streaming services and a DVD was released by Kino Lorber.

He was an art consultant to the City of Sydney for Jenny Holzer’s permanent public sculpture I Stay, installed in 2014.

After graduating from the University of Sydney with the University Medal, he studied art history at Cambridge University and received a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. He has lectured at Harvard and Yale, and also worked for several years at Tate Modern.

The BBC has called his writing “Extraordinary, original and rewarding.”