Siona Wilson

Siona Wilson is associate professor of art history at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She is the author of the book Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance (Minnesota, 2015) and has published widely in academic journals, edited collections and art magazines on topics including feminist politics of war imaging, documentary photography and film and video art and the gendering of sound. Her recent curatorial projects include I can’t breathe at the Gallery of the College of Staten Island (including works by Nona Faustine, Patricia Silva, Kara Walker and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa) and, co-curated with Katherine Carl and Valerie Tevere, Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores at the James Gallery, New York. She is currently working on a book addressing episodes in the history of documentary from the 1930s to the present and the figure of the female insurgent.