Feminisms and Art History in Southeast Asia:

Exploring Feminist Writings
(circa 1900-2020)

  • Friday, December 6, 2024 @ 08:00AM - Sunday, December 8, 2024 @ 04:00PM
  • 181, Moo.19, Tambon Phan Don, Amphoe Kumphawapi, Udon Thani, 41370, THAILAND

Organizer Profiles

Yvonne Low

Yvonne Low

Historian & Lecturer, University of Sydney

Yvonne Low is an art historian specializing in Asian Art. She is a lecturer at the University of Sydney, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate (Masters of Art Curating) programs. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art, with particular interests in Asian diaspora and transnationalism, feminisms in contemporary art, women’s history, and digital methods.

As part of the editorial committee for Southeast of Now, the first journal dedicated to modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia and supported by NUS Press, Yvonne is dedicated to advancing scholarship in the region and making this knowledge widely accessible. She is currently an advisory committee member for The Flow of History (AWARE/AAA), The Womanifesto Way (Power Institute, DFAT, 4A), and co-developer of the digital tool, Artists Trajectories Map.

Roger Nelson

Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Roger Nelson is an art historian and curator, currently Assistant Professor of Art History in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the 2022 recipient of the A.L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize. Recent curatorial projects include The Unfaithful Octopus, at NTU ADM Gallery (Singapore) and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai), and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: The Bouquet and the Flower, forthcoming at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai) and Jameel Arts Centre (Dubai).

Roger’s current book project considers artistic art histories in Southeast Asia. He is co-founding co-editor of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, a scholarly journal published by NUS Press.