{"id":13214,"date":"2026-01-27T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=13214"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:46:03","slug":"curating-queer-histories","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/event\/curating-queer-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Curating Queer Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>M+ x HKU Art History Lecture Series<\/h5>\n<h2>Curating Queer Histories<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date: 4 March<\/strong><strong> 2026 (Wednesday)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Time: 6:30pm-7:45pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: Grand Hall, Centennial Campus, HKU (<a href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250323-spiegler-talk-directions.pdf\">directions<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration: <a href=\"https:\/\/hku.au1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_emQkqyP91EFoZkW\">CLICK HERE<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>Free seating, with doors open at 6:15pm<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: <span class=\"markzo19h9pw8\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Julia<\/span> Bryan-Wilson will provide a curatorial overview of the 2024-25 show\u00a0<i>Queer\u00a0Histories\u00a0<\/i>at the Museum of Art of S\u00e3o Paulo, placing the show within the context of larger debates about queer\/trans\u00a0representation, space, religion, abstraction, and archives.\u00a0In doing so, she raises questions about how to stage political arguments in space. She also argues that art history itself has been a crucial resource for queer\/trans artists as they look to alternative modes of cultural inscription.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0<span class=\"x_x_gmail-il\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Julia<\/span>\u00a0Bryan-Wilson teaches contemporary art and gender studies at Columbia University. She is the award-winning author of several books, including\u00a0<i>Fray: Art and Textile Politics<\/i>\u00a0(2017, winner of the ASAP Book Prize, the Frank Jewett Mather Award, and the Robert Motherwell Book Award) and\u00a0<i>Louise Nevelson\u2019s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face<\/i>\u00a0(2023).\u00a0 Her first book\u00a0<i>Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era<\/i>\u00a0was translated into Korean and Japanese, and her co-authored book\u00a0<i>Art in the Making<\/i>\u00a0has been translated into Korean. As Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de S\u00e3o Paulo, she co-curated several exhibitions, including\u00a0<i>Queer Histories<\/i>\u00a0(with Adriano Pedrosa and Andr\u00e9 Mesquita, 2024-25). In November 2025 she opened two shows\u2014<i>GUTSY: On Feminist Infrastructures\u00a0<\/i>(at MSN Warsaw) and\u00a0<i>Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces<\/i>\u00a0(at the Wallach Art Gallery, organized with Natalia Brizuela). Her writing has appeared in many venues, including\u00a0<i>Art Bulletin, Artforum, Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal,\u00a0<\/i>and<i>\u00a0Journal of Modern Craft,<\/i>\u00a0and she has authored texts on artists such as Pacita Abad, Lee Bul, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Yoko Ono, and Yinka Shonibare.\u00a0 In 2024 she served as President of the International Jury of the 60th Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M+ x HKU Art History Lecture Series Curating Queer Histories Date: 4 March 2026 (Wednesday) Time: 6:30pm-7:45pm Venue: Grand Hall, Centennial Campus, HKU (directions) Registration: CLICK HERE Free seating, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13238,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[360,343],"class_list":["post-13214","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-2025-2026","tribe_events_cat-public-lecture","cat_2025-2026","cat_public-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13268,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13214\/revisions\/13268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13214"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=13214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}