Yve-Alain Bois (born April 16, 1952) is a professor emeritus of Art History at the School of Historical Studies at theInstitute for Advanced Study inPrinceton, New Jersey.

Bois received anM.A. from theÉcole Pratique des Hautes Études in 1973 for his work onEl Lissitzky's typography, and aPh.D. from theÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1977 for his work onLissitzky's andMalevich's conceptions of space.^[1] Both of his degrees were supervised underRoland Barthes.

Bois is a professor emeritus at the School of Historical Studies at theInstitute for Advanced Study inPrinceton, New Jersey, in the chair inaugurated byErwin Panofsky,^[1] and at theEuropean Graduate School. From 1991 to 2005, he served on the faculty atHarvard University asJoseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor in Modern Art,^[2] after teaching atJohns Hopkins University and at theCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique.^[1][3]

Bois was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2016.^[4]

Bois has written books and articles on artists of Europeanmodernism. He is an editor of the journalOctober.

• "Whose Formalism?"Art Bulletin, Mar. 1996European Graduate School
• Review of Tony Smith retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York,Artforum, Nov. 1998
• Review of "Supports/Surfaces" exhibition at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume,Artforum, Dec. 1998
• Bois and Linda Nochlin discuss theMatisse and Picasso exhibition,Artforum, Feb. 1999
• Review of Barnett Newman retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art,Artforum, Mar. 2002
• "The Mourning After," panel discussion on painting,Artforum, Mar. 2003
• On Fred Sandback,Artforum, Oct. 2003

• Bois faculty page at European Graduate School
• Interview with Bois for Folha de Sao Paulo, Caderno Mais!, 2005
• MIT Press: list of books and articles by Bois
• All About Yve: An Interview with Yve-Alain Bois (1995)
• "From Art to Barthes and Back Again",The Harvard Crimson, September 19, 1991

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