Email: L.E.Siddons@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 3453
Louise Siddons (she/they) is Professor of Visual Politics and Head of the Department of Art & Media Technology at the Winchester School of Art. She is also the director of The Winchester Gallery. Her research focuses on intersectional visual resistance to structures of marginalisation in modernity, and has covered topics from the eighteenth century to the present. Immediately prior to joining the University of Southampton, she was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sussex Humanities Lab (UK) and Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University (USA), as well as founding co-director and curator of the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, for which they wrote the first collection catalogue, Sharing a Journey (Oklahoma State University, 2014). She is the author of Centering Modernism (2018, University of Oklahoma Press), which addresses the coastalisation of the postwar American art world, and Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon, which examines the intersection of lesbian and Navajo sovereignty politics at mid-century through the lens of photographer Laura Gilpin (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). Their research has been supported by grants from the British Library, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the US-UK Fulbright Commission, and others.