Mark Polizzotti

Mark Polizzotti is Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he oversees all aspects of the Museum's publishing program which produces scholarly books, exhibition catalogues, gallery text, art journals, and other publications.

In addition to his publishing activities, he is the author of thirteen books on topics such as literature, translation, film, music, and Surrealism. He has also published numerous translations of fiction and nonfiction works from the French. His works include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados, Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, Why Surrealism Matters, and Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Apollo, The Nation, Parnassus, Partisan Review, and elsewhere. His translations of over sixty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, Arthur Rimbaud, André Breton, Scholastique Mukasonga, and Jean Echenoz, have won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the International Booker Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the NBCC/Gregg Barrios Prize, among others.

Before assuming his role at the Met, Polizzotti oversaw publications and digital image resources as Director of Intellectual Property and Publisher of MFA Publications at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Prior to his work at the Museum of Fine Arts, he was Editorial Director at David R. Godine, Publisher, Senior Editor at Grove Weidenfeld, and Assistant Editor at Random House.