School of Arts

Alexandre Claude Ouairy

Key information

Roles
School of Arts PhD researcher
Department
School of Arts
Qualifications
DNAP National Diploma of Art (École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Grenoble, France) DNSEP National Higher Diploma of Plastic Expression (École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Grenoble, France)
Email address
676233@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Art Practices of Resistance in China, 2007-2018.
Internal Supervisors
Professor Shane McCausland

Biography

Alexandre Ouairy is a doctoral researcher at SOAS investigating Chinese contemporary art history.

His research explores the Post-80s generation of artists and the transformation of contemporary art practices in response to Xi’s China, examining the interplay between artists, institutions, the market economy, and censorship. 

Alexandre is based in Shanghai where, for the past 20 years, he has worked as an artist and creative director in addition to lecturing in art history at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and collaborating as a visiting scholar at Jiaotong University.

Research interests

His research interests lie at the intersection of visual studies, critical theory, aesthetics, and postcolonialism.

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