Founder
Dr. Silvia Neri is a researcher, art critic, and curator. She is the founder of Neri Contemporary Art, a nomadic gallery based in Paris.
She is an associate researcher at the Arts des Images et Art Contemporain (AIAC) laboratory at Université Paris 8, a member of the ERUA research network Confronting Crises: Beyond Forms of Humanism, and a member of the Centre de Recherches Internationales sur l’Imaginaire (CRI2i).
In 2020 she completed a doctorate in Aesthetics, Science and Technologies of the Arts at Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, in co-supervision with the Department of History, Criticism and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua.
Since 2017 she has taught theory and aesthetics of art and curatorial practice at several French institutions. She has collaborated with universities across Europe (Padua, Lisbon, Stockholm, Fulda, Münster, the Balearic Islands) and with all partner institutions of the ERUA alliance. She has co-organised a major Franco-Korean research project involving Université Paris 8, Université de Nanterre, the Kaywon University of Art and Design (Seoul), and the Nam June Paik Art Center (Seoul).
A Global History of Women in Art is promoted by Neri Contemporary Art and grew from an obsession built over years of scholarship, writing, and curatorial practice: the recognition that the art history we have inherited is incomplete by design. Not for lack of women artists, who have always existed, everywhere, but through the combined effect of excluding institutions, incomplete archives, and criteria of value constructed to exclude. This project is an attempt to give that history back.
GLOBAL HISTORY OF WOMEN IN ART 