Ashley K. Raghubir (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada). She researches late twentieth and twenty-first century art of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Her dissertation considers the art of Hew Locke, Christopher Cozier, and Sandra Brewster in relation to questions of empire, colonialism, and migration through the lenses of postcolonial studies, anti-colonial thought, and Caribbean studies.
She has held Curatorial Research Assistant positions at the Art Gallery of York University and the Gardiner Museum (both in Toronto, Canada). Ashley was a visiting student at the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, and Nation (TrAIN) at the University of the Arts London (UAL) Chelsea College of Arts (London, United Kingdom). Her art writing has been published in The Journal of Modern Craft, C Magzine, Texte zur Kunst, Momus, and O BOD. She holds a H.B.A. in Art History (Specialist) from the University of Toronto and a M.A. in Art History from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada).
She is interested in curatorial projects that engage with the art and history of Britain in the context of the British Empire and the Caribbean including imperial legacies, artistic exchange, and anti-colonialism.
