Randip Bakshi is an Instructor at the Department of Art History & Religious Studies at Langara College, where he teaches courses on Asian art. His area of research is early modern South Asia, especially Mughal painting and its secondary school in Punjab. His other interests include gender & sexuality, the British Empire, identity, and global art history. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and a graduate degree from the University of Victoria. Subsequently, he started his doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley before returning to Canada.

Adrienne Fast earned her PhD in art history and theory at the University of British Columbia. Her academic work focuses on art and visual culture production during the late-colonial period in South Asia, particularly in Bengal. She taught South and Southeast Asian art history as an adjunct professor at the University of Western Washington for 5 years before shifting to working in curatorial roles in museums and art galleries. Currently she is the Curator of Art & Visual Culture at The Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford, BC, as well as serving as a Research Associate with the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she also teaches courses in South Asian art history as a sessional instructor.

Eszter Rosta is an emerging object and performance artist based in Edmonton, AB (Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 Territory). Using embodied practice and research-creational methodologies, her work explores affective, intersubjective, and mediated spatio-temporal form[lessness]. She has exhibited and performed in Ontario and Alberta and has presented work and papers at the CSPT Graduate Student Conference (University of Victoria), the Québec Universities English Conference (Bishop’s University), and the Feminist Art Conference (OCAD University). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies and a Bachelor of Education from York University, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Alberta.

Dr. Analays Alvarez Hernandez is an art historian and independent curator. Her research focuses on contemporary art, with an emphasis on public art, global art histories, diasporic communities, Latino Canadian art, Cuban art, and curating. She has notably received a bachelor’s degree in Art History (2005) from the Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), and her doctorate from Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, Dr. Alvarez Hernandez held a FRQSC postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of History of Art at the University of Toronto. Currently, she is Assistant Professor in the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal. In collaboration with Maria Silina (UQAM) and Yi Gu (University of Toronto), she leads a SSHRC-funded project about “domestic art galleries” in (post)-socialist societies.

Maria Silina is an Adjunct Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal at the Department of History of Art. She is the author of History and Ideology: Architectural Sculpture of the 1920-30s in the USSR (2014, in Russian). Her current book project is titled Art History on Display: Soviet Museology Between Two Wars (1920s-1930s). She participates in several research projects, which address communist art and history, including Expériences et usages du passé dans les communautés en ligne : (n)ostalgies de l’ancienne République démocratique allemande in collaboration with Katharina Niemeyer (UQAM), as well as Artistic Research. Between the Stenograph and the Encyclopaedia. Strategies for the Acquisition and Documentation of Knowledge used by the State Academy of Artistic Research in Moscow (1921-1930), DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) project with PD Nikolaj Plotnikov and Dr. Anke Hennig, Ruhr Universität Bochum.