Astri
Professor
Art History & Visual Studies
University of Victoria
Canada
Biography
Wright’s PhD is in Southeast Asian Studies and Art History with a minor in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University. She located her research focus in the historical and spatial dialogues and anatomies of modern and contemporary Indonesian art. Her main research has been on the first generation of nationalist Indonesian artists (pre-revolution and Sukarno era), activist artists and women artists (Suharto era), and since the turn of the 21st century on global collaborations between indigenous-contemporary and modern-contemporary artists.In addition to teaching and research, Astri Wright is also active as a curator, working with contemporary artists who draw on hybrid and global identities in their work.
Research Interest
Indigenous, indic-inspired, European, and global dialogues in modern and contemporary Indonesian art,Religious genres, iconographies and practices in South and Southeast Asian art,Fiction-writing drawing on art historical contexts of border-crosser individuals and culture
Publications
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Wright A, Marianto DM. Soemantri, The Revolution & Evolution of Sudjana Kerton.
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Laberge Y. Andrei Nakov, L’Avant-Garde Russe, Paris, Éditions Fernand Hazan, 1984, 119 p. Reproductions. Photos. Études littéraires [Internet]. Consortium Erudit; 1988;20(3):149. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/500824ar
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LIM SS. New Media and the Singaporean: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Media Literacy. Singapore Perspectives 2007 [Internet]. Co-Published with Institute of Policy Studies; 2007 Mar;79–92. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812708243_0007
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Wright A. Soul, spirit and mountain: preoccupations of contemporary Indonesian painters (Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University).
