Walking with Our Sisters Project

Eugenia Kisin is Assistant Professor of Art and Society at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her ethnographic and historical research focuses on the ways that things called “art” come to matter at a nexus of social action, extractive economies, and forms of governance. Through her teaching, work with artists, and role as an editorial advisor at the critical art quarterly C Magazine, she is committed to scholarly and political engagement with the histories and futures of contemporary Indigenous art in North America. Much of her writing is on contemporary First Nations art in British Columbia, Canada, and on artists’ practices as unsettling forms of sovereignty amidst extractive projects, and includes publications in Visual Anthropology Review, Settler Colonial Studies, and Collaborative Anthropologies. She is currently at work on a book manuscript titled Unsettled Aesthetics about the history of contemporary Northwest Coast art as a cultural resource.