Rate My Professor Michelle Antoinette

Antoinette’s research centers on modern and contemporary Asian art histories, particularly Southeast Asian contemporary art and its intersections with globalisation, alongside the art of Asian diasporas including Asian-Australian artists. She has secured major Australian Research Council fellowships: ‘The Rise of New Cultural Networks in Asia in the Twenty-First Century’ (DP1096041), the DECRA project ‘Asian Art Publics’ (DE170100455, 2017–2020), and the international team project ‘Care and Repair: Rethinking Contemporary Curation for Conditions of Crisis’ (DP240102206, commencing 2024). Key publications include her monograph Reworlding Art History: Encounters with Contemporary Southeast Asian Art after 1990 (Brill | Rodopi, 2015), co-edited Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making (ANU Press, 2014, with Caroline Turner), and co-editor of the 2020 special issue of World Art on ‘Contemporary art worlds and art publics in Southeast Asia’. She co-curated Shaping Geographies: Art, Woman, Southeast Asia in Singapore (2019–2020) and organized symposia such as Shifting Grounds, New Horizons: Thinking and doing contemporary Southeast Asian art now (2022). Her work contributes to global art discourses through public lectures, exhibitions, and media engagements.