Quoting name: Ana Balona de Oliveira

Professional Category: Researcher

Positions within IHA: Board Member – RG Coordinator [Contemporary Art Studies] | SC Member

Thematic areas: Modern and Contemporary Art; Visual Culture; Comparative (anti-/post-)Colonial Archives and Epistemic Decolonization; The Lusophone Black Atlantic and Indian Oceans; Migration, Diaspora and Non-white Europe; Black Activisms and Intersectional Feminisms

Contact: abalona.oliveira@fcsh.unl.pt

CIÊNCIA ID: 7D13-D43A-67A0

ORCiD: 0000-0003-1886-2621

Scopus Author ID: 38261094900

Biography

Ana Balona de Oliveira (PhD Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2012) is Assistant Researcher (FCT CEEC 2017) at the Institute for Art History of the New University of Lisbon (IHA-FCSH-NOVA), where she co-coordinates the line ‘Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Art: Identities and Representation’. She is also Invited Assistant Professor at the Art History Department of FCSH and independent curator. Her research focuses on colonial, anti- and post-colonial narratives, migration and globalization in contemporary art from ‘Lusophone’ countries and beyond, in an intersectional and decolonial feminist perspective. She published articles in Third Text, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, African Arts, ARTMargins, among others, contributed essays and interviews to numerous exhibition catalogues and academic publications, co-edited various volumes and curated several exhibitions. 

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Ana Balona de Oliveira (PhD Courtauld Institute of Art, Universidade de Londres, 2012) é Investigadora Auxiliar (FCT CEEC 2017) no Instituto de História da Arte da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHA-FCSH-NOVA), onde cocoordena a linha ‘Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Art: Identities and Representation’. É também Professora Auxiliar Convidada no Departamento de História da Arte da FCSH e curadora independente. A sua investigação incide sobre narrativas coloniais, anti- e pós-coloniais, migração e globalização na arte contemporânea de países ‘lusófonos’ e outros, numa perspetiva feminista, interseccional e decolonial. Publicou artigos em revistas como Third Text, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, African Arts, ARTMargins, entre outras, contribuiu com ensaios e entrevistas para inúmeros catálogos de exposições e publicações académicas, coeditou vários volumes de ensaios e comissariou várias exposições.

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Abbreviations:
SC – Scientific Council
RG – Research Group