Ashley K. Raghubir is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. She researches late twentieth and twenty-first-century art of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Her dissertation considers questions of material and medium in relation to histories of empire, colonialism, and migration. She has held curatorial Research Assistant positions in support of exhibition projects at The Goldfarb Gallery at York University and the Gardiner Museum (both in Toronto, Canada). She aspires to curate exhibitions of contemporary Caribbean art in the region as well as across the diaspora in collaboration with others. Ashley is committed to curatorial projects that are deeply invested in public programming and community.
In 2024, she was a visiting student at the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, and Nation at the University of the Arts London’s (UAL) Chelsea College of Arts (London, United Kingdom). Her art writing has been published in The Journal of Modern Craft, C Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, and O BOD. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art History (Specialist) from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts in Art History from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada).
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the 2025 cohort of the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Now in its eleventh year, the Seminar will provide twelve outstanding students from around the world with the opportunity to engage in the critical responsibilities of museums today. The ... Read More >