Aaron Ambroso

Research Interests / Specializations: Anthropocene, Museum Studies, Institutional Critique, Environmental Justice, Extractivism, Museums and the Petrochemical Industry, Postcolonialism, Science and Technology Studies, Participatory Art

Katie Belcher

Katie Belcher performing bread for all, and roses too, 2026 (photo: Rachel Topham Photography)

Research Interests / Specializations: The theory and practice of drawing, performance studies, drawing-oriented methodologies for co-creation/curation, the lacuna, visual scores, embodied memory, domestic spheres and the everyday.

Carolyn Bell Farrell

Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Canadian art; cultural memory and identity; art and ritual.

Emily-Anne Cadotte

Research Interests / Specializations: The intersection of art and politics, public arts policy, regionalisms and regional galleries, subject positions within the museum, socially engaged art/social practice, taste and social class.

Calla Elia

Research Interests / Specializations: Disability studies, architectural space and design, ethics of accommodation, agency, and identity.

Behnaz Fatemi Jahmani

Research Interests / Specializations: Research-creation, diaspora studies, performance drawing, installation, durational performance, sound studies, cultural translation, museum archives, material culture, embodied knowledge, archival silencing, decolonial approaches to museum display, Iranian and Middle Eastern visual culture.

Brittany Forrest

Research Interests / Specializations: Sexual Manifestations, Gender Dysphoria, Perception Fabrications, Conditioning, Alienation, Mnemonic Memories.

Ronique Gillis

Research Interests / Specializations: Black visual studies; Black ontology; Black bodies; colonialism/neocolonialism; decoloniality/decolonization; neoclassicism; contemporary art; British and American art.

Xi Jin

Research Interests / Specializations: Multimedia, installation, practices, materials, language, computational linguistics.

Jessica Joyce

Research Interests / Specializations: Oil painting, portraiture, urban landscape, community art, climate change.

Masha Kouznetsova

Research Interests / Specializations: Installation, improvisation, radio and transmission art, materiality and texture of sound, re/fragmentation of materials and found objects, pinhole and cameraless photography, drawing, experimental writing, translation and inbetweenness, place and placelessness.

Katie Lawson

Research Interests / Specializations: Museums; Contemporary Art; Visual Culture; Curating; Climate Change; Sustainability; Waste; Water.

Yijing Angela Li

Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Art; Photography; East Asian Studies; Chinese studies.

Margherita Papadatos

Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary art, new media, installation art, continental philosophy, the sublime, time, space, memory, affect.

Danielle Petti

Research Interests / Specializations: Material agency, Foraged and natural pigments, geological timescales, ecological aesthetics, Cross-disciplinary research

Racquel Rowe

Research Interests / Specializations: Caribbean Visual Culture; Black Feminist Thought; Contemporary Art; Video and Performance Art; Installation

Rojina Sabetiashraf

Research Interests / Specializations: Modern and Contemporary Art

Amy Skodak

Research Interests / Specializations: The intersections of visual arts and poetry, artists’ books, museum studies, archives, memory, temporality, 19th–21st century painting, photography, and gender studies.

Rory Succee

Research Interests / Specializations: Artistic and curatorial chronotopes, Latin American architecture, Brazilian art, anthropology of art, decolonization, and museum practices and repatriation.

Imogen Wilson

Image credit: Lucas Cabral

Research Interests / Specializations: Net art, archiving, conservation in museums and DIY spaces, digital memory and media theory.