Sandrine Colard

is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers-Newark University in the United States and curator-at-large at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels. Holding a doctorate from Columbia University, she is a historian of African, modern and contemporary arts, as well as a historian of photography. Her research has been published internationally and supported by grants from the Musée du Quai Branly, the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, the Ford Foundation and by the Getty/ACLS for his book project on the history of photography in the colonial Congo. Among others, Sandrine Colard curated the 6th Biennale of Lubumbashi in 2019; The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture. Photographs from The Walther Collection (Ryerson Image Center, Toronto, 2019); Congoville (Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2021) for which she co-edited Congoville: African Presence and Colonial Traces in Belgium (Leuven University Press, 2021); and Recaptioning Congo (FOMU, Antwerp) whose book companion received the Aperture/Paris Photo Jurors’ Mention in the category Photo Catalogue of the Year 2023.