Roger Nelson is an art historian and curator, currently Assistant Professor of Art History in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the 2022 recipient of the A.L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize. Recent curatorial projects include The Unfaithful Octopus, at NTU ADM Gallery (Singapore) and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai), and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: The Bouquet and the Flower, forthcoming at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai) and Jameel Arts Centre (Dubai).
Roger’s current book project considers artistic art histories in Southeast Asia. He is co-founding co-editor of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, a scholarly journal published by NUS Press.
Roger 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 he, along with Yvonne Low, organised Feminisms and Art History in Southeast Asia: Exploring Feminist Writings (Circa 1900-2020), hosted by Womanifesto at Baan Womanifesto. Roger is also a member of the Womanoifesto Way Anthology Editorial Collective, to which he has also contributed co-written Response to Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook.
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