I am a writer, art historian, and educator specializing in modern and contemporary art, and the role of art in contexts of land-based resistance.

I am interested in thinking about how art has actively advanced political struggles, particularly Indigenous communities’ efforts to reaffirm their cultural, visual, and political sovereignty. In-progress projects span the topics of monochrome painting and Fourth World activism, earthworks and settler colonialism, and the work of land-based political collectives.

My writing has appeared in journals such as October, Peripeti, Kunst og Kultur, Kritik, and Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society; in exhibition catalogues for the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and Nuummi Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivik / Nuuk Art Museum; and in periodicals including First American Art Magazine, Neriusaaq, and Kunst.gl. In 2017, at the invitation of Nuuk Art Museum, I curated Akorngusersuineq - Interruption, an intervention at Greenland’s National Museum focused on the art and legacy of Pia Arke. In 2023, I co-organized the symposium Sialussuartut | Like a Cloudburst: Redefining Greenlandic Art History at SMK—the National Gallery of Denmark in connection with the museum’s first solo exhibition of the work of Jessie Kleemann, with whom I’ve collaborated over the years on a variety of projects.

I received my PhD from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), my MA from the University of British Columbia (Canada), and my BA from the University of Oslo (Norway), all in art history. I have previously taught in the Art History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Michigan’s History of Art Department, and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Chicago is home.