Sandrine Colard

Sandrine Colard is an independent curator based in New York City and Brussels, a researcher and a writer, and an assistant professor of art history at Rutgers University, Newark (US). Holding a PhD from Columbia University, Colard is a specialist of modern and contemporary global arts, and a photography historian, with a focus on Africa. 

Her curatorial projects include The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (co-curator, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, 2016) ; The Way She Looks : A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture. Photographs from The Walther Collection (Ryerson Image Center, Toronto, 2019) ; Multiple Transmissions : Art in the Afropolitan Age (Wiels, Brussels, 2019). She was the artistic director of the 2019 Lubumbashi Biennale (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Future Genealogies : Tales from the Equatorial Line. 

One of her upcoming shows is Congoville (Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2021). Sandrine Colard is an international lecturer (Concordia University, EHESS, Wiels, Bozar, European Parliament, MoMA, New York University) and the author of multiple publications (African Arts, Critical Interventions, Cahiers du CAP, Cultures et Musées). Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships, such as the quai Branly doctoral fellowship, the post-doctoral Labex Cap fellowship (INHA, Paris), a Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship (NYU Tisch School of the Art) and a Ford Foundation fellowship.