Professor Oriana Baddeley

TrAIN Core Member - Deputy Director

I was born in Singapore and grew up in Europe and the UK, studying History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. My doctoral subject formed the basis for work on the 1992 Hayward exhibition The Art of Ancient Mexico. I have written extensively on contemporary Latin American art, notably including Drawing the Line: Art and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin America (Verso 1989, co-author Valerie Fraser) and collaborated with inIVA and Gerardo Mosquera to produce Beyond the Fantastic: Art Criticism from Contemporary Latin America (inIVA/MIT 1996).

With Toshio Watanabe and Partha Mitter, I co-ran and explored the themes of ‘Nation, Identity and Modernity: Visual Culture of India, Japan and Mexico, 1860s-1940’ as part of a three year AHRB funded research project.

More recent publications include an essay on Ancient Mexican sources within early modern architecture in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Art Deco (2003) catalogue and an essay on contemporary responses to Frida Kahlo for the Tate Modern exhibition for which I also organised an international conference exploring themes raised in this essay, The Many Faces of Frida at Tate Modern (2005).

I am Professor of Art History and Director of Research at Camberwell College of Arts, and also Deputy Director of TrAIN, and am on the International Advisory Committee of UECLAA (University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art), an advisory editor of the Oxford Art Journal and a Trustee of the St Catherine Foundation.

Links

  • Research Staff Profile : Camberwell College of Arts

Related Projects

  • Nation, Identity and Modernity

    Nation, Identity and Modernity, Visual Culture of India, Japan and Mexico, 1860s-1940 was funded by the AHRC (then AHRB) between 2001 and 2004. A collaboration between The University of Sussex and the University of the Arts London, this major research project was led by Professors Partha Mitter, Oriana Baddeley and Toshio Watanabe.
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  • Transnational Correspondence

    Transnational Correspondence is a collaboration between TrAIN and PPGAV, the centre for fine art research of the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. It stems from ongoing research carried out by TrAIN Research Fellow Dr Michael Asbury into the comparative reception of Brazilian art at national and international levels.
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