Yvonne Low is an art historian specializing in Asian Art. She is a lecturer at the University of Sydney, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate (Masters of Art Curating) programs. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art, with particular interests in Asian diaspora and transnationalism, feminisms in contemporary art, women’s history, and digital methods.
As part of the editorial committee for Southeast of Now, the first journal dedicated to modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia and supported by NUS Press, Yvonne is dedicated to advancing scholarship in the region and making this knowledge widely accessible. She is currently an advisory committee member for The Flow of History (AWARE/AAA), The Womanifesto Way (Power Institute, DFAT, 4A), and co-developer of the digital tool, Artists Trajectories Map
Yvonne has participated in Archiving Womanifesto exhibtion at The Cross Art Projects, Sydney in 2019; Gender in South East Asian Art Histories Symposium held in Sydney, also in 2019; in 2024 she, along with Roger Nelson organised Feminisms and Art History in Southeast Asia: Exploring Feminist Writings (Circa 1900-2020), hosted by Womanifesto at Baan Womanifesto. Yvonne is also a member of the Womanoifesto Way Anthology Editorial Collective, to which she has also contributed her essay titled Womanifesto’s Archives: In Search of a Feminist Dwelling Space and a conversation with Arahmaiani.
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