Natasha Bissonauth PhD ’17 joined the Emily Carr University in January 2025 as Assistant Professor of Art History in the Faculty of Culture and Community. Previously, she taught for the Visual Art and Art History Department at York University in Toronto and was Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Her research centers queer aesthetics and archival logics across South Asia and Indian Ocean diasporas. She is currently working on a SSHRC-funded book project that investigates collage and assemblage as a way to suture and severe across histories of immigration and indenture.
Select publications include “Sunil Gupta’s Sun City: An Exercise in Camping Orientalism,” “The Dissent of Play: Lotahs in the Museum,” and “Surrealist Returns.” Recent articles examine the fabular aesthetics of gender and indenture in Kama La Mackerel’s poetry and Renluka Maharaj’s visual practice. Several forthcoming exhibition catalog essays discuss the artistic practices of Zanele Muholi, Chitra Ganesh, and Meera Sethi, respectively. Additionally, Bissonauth will contribute an exhibition essay for Divya Mehra, the 2022 winner of the Sobey Art Award. Select artist interviews, exhibition reviews, and book reviews appear in Art Asia Pacific, Art India, C Magazine, and Women + Performance. Bissonauth is the current review editor for the peer-reviewed journal ADVA (Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas).
