Dr. Kirsten Lloyd
Kirsten Lloyd is a curator and Lecturer in the School of History of Art. She Directs the MSc by Research in Collections and Curating Practices. Her research focuses on late 20th and 21st art, including lens-based practice, participatory work, the art document and realism as well as the histories, theories and pragmatics of curating. She is an academic lead for the University’s new Contemporary Art Research Collection. Kirsten is currently working on a single-authored book titled Social Documents, examining the ‘document trend’ in contemporary art since 1968 and linking it to the demand for the circulation of social knowledge and increasingly urgent questions around representation and realism in the 21st century. She is also a Research Fellow with the ‘Social Reproduction: Looking for Jeanne’ (2019 – 2022) project, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Kirsten has co-convened a number of research workshops, symposia and conference panels on ‘Labours of Love, Works of Passion: The Social (Re)production of Art Workers from Industrialisation to Globalisation,’ at the 2016 Association of Art Historians conference; the SGSAH-funded workshop ‘Curating Materiality: Feminism and Contemporary Art History’ (2015); ‘Social Reproduction in Postwar and Contemporary Art,’ at the 2014 Historical Materialism conference; ‘The Ethics of Encounter” AHRC-funded workshop at The University of Edinburgh and Stills (2011); ‘Radical Complicities: Curating Art in the 21st Century,’ at the National Galleries of Scotland (2010). She also founded the ‘Social Reproduction in Art Life and Struggle’ reading group with Victoria Horne, now run with Collective.