INVOLVEMENT IN THE ARTS

As a historian, I participate in art museum and gallery programs to examine how contemporary artists across the Global South engage with politics, labor, and histories of resistance. My talks and events create dialogue between artistic practice and critical scholarship, emphasizing the transformative potential of art in confronting global inequalities.

I have done events with The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, the Mini-Gallery of Underground Anticulture with locations in Minsk and Kiev, Art Dubai in the UAE, and Le Musée des civilisations noires in Dakar, Senegal.

I have furthered my work of public education through the museum space as the 2023-24 J. Clawson Mills Scholar in the Director’s Office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where I contributed to expanding critical conversations on art, empire, and the Global South.

For museum or gallery speaking engagements, please contact me at kristin.plys@utoronto.ca