Visiting Lecturers and Professors

The full-time faculty is supported by adjunct and visiting lecturers. The visiting lecturers include Individuals from academia and industry such as art historians, curators, art critics, practicing artists, gallerists and auctioneers. As such, students are exposed to a broad range of perspectives and practices that reflect the philosophy of the Programme. Some of the past and current visiting professors and lecturers include:

Prof Anthony Gardner, Head of the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, where he teaches Contemporary Art History and Theory and is a fellow of The Queen’s College.

Prof Partha Mitter, a writer and historian of art and culture, specialising in the reception of Indian art in the West, as well as in modernity, art and identity in India, and more recently in global modernism.

Prof James Elkins, E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a prolific writer on the visual arts.

Prof David Clarke, founder and academic director of the Hong Kong Art Archive. His research has been primarily in the areas of American and Chinese art history.

Prof Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a department she founded in 2002. Rogoff works at the meeting ground between contemporary practices, politics and philosophy.

Dr Caroline Turner, Adjunct senior research fellow and associate professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University (ANU). She was formerly the deputy director of the Humanities Research Centre, ANU from 2000 – 2006.

Dr Seng Yu Jin is a senior curator at the National Gallery Singapore. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne on the history of exhibitions in Southeast Asia. Seng’s research interests cover regional art histories focusing on the history of exhibitions and artist collectives in Southeast Asia.