Michelle Antoinette

Dr Michelle Antoinette is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Cultural Inquiry, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University. She is a researcher of modern and contemporary Asian art (including Asian-Australian art and artists) and has been a lecturer on Asian art and museums at the ANU. From 2010, Michelle is undertaking research on the rise of new cultural networks in Asia in the twenty-first century, exploring cultural organisations across Asia and their networking strategies, focusing on contemporary art and art museums as key indicators of cultural change. Michelle’s previous research has focused on the contemporary art histories of Southeast Asia and her recent publications include “The Art of Race: Rethinking Malaysian Identity Through the Art of Wong Hoy Cheong” (2009), “Contending with Present Pasts: on developing Southeast Asian art histories” (2009), “Intimate Pasts Resurrected and Released: Sex, death, and faith in the art of Josè Legaspi” (2008), and “Deterritorializing Aesthetics: International art and its new cosmopolitanisms, from an Indonesian Perspective” (2007).