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Link to Caring. Art, People, Possibilities.
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Caring. Art, People, Possibilities.

Link to Weaving In, Weaving Out
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Weaving In, Weaving Out

Link to Grove Art Online: Disability arts movement
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Grove Art Online: Disability arts movement

Link to Tears, stitches & transition: feminist textiles and a birth of QueerCrip aesthetics
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Tears, stitches & transition: feminist textiles and a birth of QueerCrip aesthetics

Link to Crip Curation and the Aesthetics of the Undeliverable
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Crip Curation and the Aesthetics of the Undeliverable

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance
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Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

Link to Cripistemology of the Cabinet: Jesse Darling’s Epistemologies (shamed cabinet)
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Cripistemology of the Cabinet: Jesse Darling’s Epistemologies (shamed cabinet)

Link to The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art
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The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art

Link to Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery
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Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery

Link to The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique
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The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique

Link to Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism
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Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism

Link to “Reinvention at the Wheel: Shaping New Histories in the Decolonization of Disability” in The Routlege Companion to Decolonizing Art History
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“Reinvention at the Wheel: Shaping New Histories in the Decolonization of Disability” in The Routlege Companion to Decolonizing Art History

Link to Here’s Looking at You: Disability Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
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Here’s Looking at You: Disability Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Link to Fugitive Crip Way-Finding and Artful Deception in the Museum
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Fugitive Crip Way-Finding and Artful Deception in the Museum

Link to A Firm Infirmity: Extending Rebecca Horn’s Prosthetic Aesthetics to Disability Studies
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A Firm Infirmity: Extending Rebecca Horn’s Prosthetic Aesthetics to Disability Studies

Link to The Flesh of the World
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The Flesh of the World

Link to Curating New Perspectives: How My Dwarfism Led Me to Disability Art
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Curating New Perspectives: How My Dwarfism Led Me to Disability Art

Link to What Disability Art Means Now
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What Disability Art Means Now

Link to Vital Signs: From Patient to Power
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Vital Signs: From Patient to Power

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance
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Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

Link to Constructing Elastic Worlds: From Avant-Garde Exhibition Design to Crip Comfort
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Constructing Elastic Worlds: From Avant-Garde Exhibition Design to Crip Comfort

Link to Art History Now: Objects, Concepts, Approaches
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Art History Now: Objects, Concepts, Approaches

Link to “Moving towards touch: the ambulatory aesthetics of description” in Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art
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“Moving towards touch: the ambulatory aesthetics of description” in Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art

Link to Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora
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Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora

Link to Journal of Arts and Communities Special Issue: Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design
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Journal of Arts and Communities Special Issue: Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design

Link to Smoke & Mirrors
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Smoke & Mirrors

News & Upcoming

    Exhibition

    Vital Signs: From Patient to Power

    September 01, 2027

    –August 30, 2032

    to tour across USA

    based on my book, Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism

    Event

    “Touch as Method: Disability, Haptic Knowledge, and Institutional Critique” for TACT: Touch, Arts, Affects New Seminar Series

    April 14, 2026

    Sorbonne Nouvelle University

    Paris, France

    Event

    "Disability, Institutional Critique & the Art Museum"

    March 24, 2026

    Department of Art & Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    Event

    MA Visual and Critical Studies Forum Guest Speaker

    March 09, 2026

    California College of the Arts

    San Francisco

    Event

    Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism book talk

    March 05, 2026

    Humanities Institute at Pennsylvania State University

    on Zoom

    New Writing

    Disability arts movement (encyclopedia entry)

    February 2026

    Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press

    Event

    College Art Association announces The Agency of Access on 2026 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award shortlist

    February 18, 2026

    Hilton

    Chicago

    Event

    Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Care, and the Medical Imaginary, with Riva Lehrer and Sandie Yi

    February 19, 2026

    University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago

    Event

    Panel: Access Denied: A SAC round table on disability justice and institutional critique, College Art Association, Chicago

    February 18, 2025

    –February 21, 2026

    Hilton Chicago

    Chicago

    Event

    Disability-First: Museums & Exhibition Design for Disabled Audiences, panel co-chaired with Charles Eppley, College Art Association, Chicago

    February 18, 2026

    –February 21, 2026

    Hilton

    Chicago

    New Writing

    "Tears, stitches & transition: feminist textiles and a birth of QueerCrip aesthetics" in Art and Feminisms: Histories, Methods, and Legacies, edited by Erin Silver, New York and London: Routledge, 2026.

    February 2026

    Routledge

    Exhibition

    Weave In, Weave Out

    January 23, 2026

    –March 22, 2026

    Positive Exposure gallery in partnership with Intertwine Arts

    New York, NY

    New Writing

    "Cripistemology of the cabinet: Jesse Darling's Epistemologies (shamed cabinet)," in Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, edited by Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire

    February 2026

    Bloomsbury, UK

    New Writing

    “Disability Studies: Institutional Critique and Disability Art as an Heir to Art’s History,” Art History Now: Objects, Concepts, Approaches, edited by Geraldine Johnson

    January 2026

    Routledge, Taylor & Francis

    New Writing

    Disability, Empowerment, and Art: On Hospital Aesthetics, interview with Amanda Cachia by Merve Sen

    December 2025

    Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal

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