Overview
Audrey’s research interrogates the complexities of navigating Indigenous and settler narratives in American and Canadian national galleries. She explores wampum as method, drawing upon the treaty principles of the Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum as a guide for anti-colonial museum practice.
Chan has garnered experience working in major museums within the United States. She served as a curatorial intern for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map—the institution’s first major retrospective of a Native American artist. She also held the Warshawsky Fellowship in Interpretation at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
She earned her B.A. in Art History from Colgate University, where she worked as a curatorial assistant for both the Longyear Museum of Anthropology and the Picker Art Gallery. She went on to receive her Master of Arts in Art History and Theory in the Indigenous Arts of the Americas degree program at the University of British Columbia. Audrey was an Exhibitions and Public Programs Assistant at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery where she led Decolonization Tours of Indigenous outdoor art to disrupt the settler-colonial position of UBC on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory.