Project Leaders
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Yvonne Low is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. She specializes in Asian modernities, gender and sexuality in Asian art, and curatorial practice, teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Her research recovers marginalized histories in Southeast Asian art and Chinese diaspora cultures, with particular focus on women’s practices and artist’s networks. She employs decolonial, feminist, and digital methodologies to challenge canonical art histories and develop new frameworks for studying artists excluded from dominant modernist narratives—including watercolorists, left-aligned practitioners, and those working across amateur-professional boundaries from the colonial period to the present. Since co-convening the inaugural 2017 international symposium on Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories, she has actively built this interdisciplinary field through multiple channels. She has co-organised three exhibitions on women’s art and archives, and serve on the editorial committee of Southeast of Now Journal and advisory boards for major regional initiatives including ‘The Flow of History: Southeast Asian Women Artists’ (AWARE/AAA) and ‘The Womanifesto Way’ (Power Institute, DFAT). Current collaborative projects include a special issue on Feminist Writings in Southeast Asian Art and the Artists Trajectories Map (ArTM), a digital tool advancing comparative research methodologies. -
Hương Ngô
Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She was born in Hong Kong, holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art & Technology Studies (2004), and was a Whitney Independent Study Fellow (2011-2012). She was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam (2016) for work that has been described as ‘deftly and defiantly decolonial’ by New City and ‘what intersectional feminist art looks like’ by the Chicago Tribune. Her work traces the entanglement of colonial history, migration, the environment, language, and labor while imagining new futures from their fragments. She works across mediums, traversing borders and making connections through differences. At once intimate and political, Ngô’s practice listens for what remains. -
Astrid Reza
Astrid Reza graduated from the History Department of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, in 2010, writing about the Indonesian women’s herstory movement. She writes broadly on literature, art, and history across various media. She has translated many books about social politics, history, feminism, and literature. She is one of the founders of RUAS (Ruang Arsip dan Sejarah Perempuan – Space for Women Archive and Herstory, 2021 - 2025) Indonesia, Yogyakarta. She is also part of the Peretas (Women Across Borders) network and a member of the SPP (School of Women’s Thought) working committee. She completed her studies in Cultural Studies at Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta as a recipient of the 2023 Indonesian Cultural Practitioners Education Scholarship, with a thesis titled ‘Mia Bustam’s Memoir: Transcending Leftist Melancholy’ (2025), which earned her a cum laude distinction. Mia Bustam’s Work and Archive Exhibition held at Biennale Jogja 18, from 5th October to 20th November 2025, based on her thesis research. -
Nguyễn Thị Minh
Nguyễn Thị Minh is a tenured lecturer in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Oregon (2018), a Fulbright scholar at the Asian American Studies Department, UCLA (2022–2023). In addition to translating multiple classical works in philosophy, gender, and cultural studies from English to Vietnamese, Minh works in comparative literature and film adaptation based on gender studies and semiotics, with her latest research publication featured in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy in 2024. She is collaborating with the Vietnam Women Publishing House to build the Women’s Book: Gender and Development series to promote Vietnamese gender studies. Minh is the co-founder of The Ladder, an inclusive community learning space, which is making academic knowledge more accessible for everyone, especially the Vietnamese youth.
Research Assistants
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Trần Hoàng Ngọc Thư
Trần Hoàng Ngọc Thư (Thu H. Tran) is an emerging arts writer, arts worker and researcher based in Sydney and Ho Chi Minh City. Recently graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours, her thesis focused on the art practices of Vietnamese artist Xuân-Hạ, and the transgressive trajectories of ephemeral, decaying matter in her work. More broadly, Thư’s research interests focus on contemporary approaches to ecocriticism, particularly within Vietnamese and broader Southeast Asian and intra-regional contexts. She is especially interested in independent cinema and contemporary art practices that engage with the natural environment and its material remainders as critical strategies of reinterpreting the past. -
Jennifer Yang
Jennifer Yang is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Sydney researching the (re)production and circulation of painted photographs across British and Dutch occupied Southeast Asia. Her writing has been published in journals including Southeast of Now and Trans Asia Photography as well as Australian and international arts publications including Asia Art Archive’s Like a Fever, Art Asia Pacific, and Artguide. Jennifer has also curated exhibitions which include Our Grandfather Road (2022) at 16 albermarle project space, Sydney and Everything We Inherit (2024) at ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta. Photo by Lindi Heap, assisted by Kate Burge, NLA.
Digital Production
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Katrina Grant is an art historian and digital humanities specialist and is currently a Research Fellow at the Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture. Her art history research examines histories of landscape design and representation and the visual culture of performance in early modern Europe. Her digital humanities research focuses on new methodologies for research on art history, material cultures and new directions for the GLAM sector. She has collaborated on projects with cultural institutions including the National Museum of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. She is currently President of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.