Kirsty Robertson

Kirsty Robertson is Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University where she also directs the Centre for Sustainable Curating (CSC). Robertson has published widely on activism, visual culture, and museums culminating in her book “Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Museums, Culture” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2019). Her new work focuses on small and micro collections that repurpose traditional museum formats for critical and politically radical projects. Robertson is a founding member of the Synthetic Collective, a group of artists, scientists, and cultural researchers working on plastics pollution in the Great Lakes Region and project co-lead on A Museum for Future Fossils, an ongoing “vernacular museum” that curatorially responds to ecological crisis.