Battista is a writer, educator, and a curator of exhibitions in museums, galleries, non-profits, and private collections. Her research is primarily focused on cross-generational feminist art, in particular performance and body-oriented practice. She is the author of New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice and Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London (both IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). She also co-edited Creative Legacies, Critical Issues in Artists’ Estates (Lund Humphries). Battista has over twenty years of leadership positions in the art world: she founded the Interaction program at Artangel, a renowned public art agency in London, as well as the MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. She is currently an Ensemble member of the New School of the Anthropocene.
