Sandrine Colard

Curator-At-Large at Fondation Kanal-Pompidou

Rutgers University-Newark/Fondation Kanal-Pompidou

Sandrine Colard is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers University-Newark, a researcher, and Curator-At-Large at Fondation Kanal-Pompidou in Brussels. Holding a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Colard is a historian of modern and contemporary African arts. She has lectured internationally and has written for numerous publications. Colard was the curator of the 6th Lubumbashi Biennale (DRC, 2019); of The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture (Ryerson Image Center, Toronto, 2019); Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age (Wiels, Brussels, 2019); Congoville (Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2021) and Recaptioning Congo (FotoMuseum, Antwerp, 2022), for which she respectively edited Congoville: African Presence and Colonial Traces in Belgium (Leuven University Press, 2021) and Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial Pictures (Lannoo, 2022). Her research has been supported by fellowships from quai Branly Museum, INHA, the Ford Foundation and the Getty/ACLS. Her current book manuscript examines the history of photography in the colonial Congo.