Dr Kate Keohane
Career Development Fellow, History of Art and Wellbeing
Dr Kate Keohane is a Career Development Fellow, History of Art and Wellbeing, at St Edmund Hall.
Kate is an art historian whose research explores how storytelling, image-making, and collective practice shape ways of living, remembering, and imagining otherwise.
Her current project, ‘Magic and Medicine: Art as Remedy’, centres artists who create spaces of care and resistance, weaving connections across bodies, histories, and environments. She is particularly interested in how small-island poetics and collaborative intersectional methodologies can expand the interpretive possibilities of art history.
Alongside her research at Oxford, Kate is Co-Director of Art Hx, a platform led by Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson at Princeton University that explores the convergences of health, colonial legacies and practices of radical care.
Her first monograph, Common-Places: Édouard Glissant, the Caribbean and Contemporary Art (under review), develops a geo-poetic method for understanding how artists narrate entangled, place-sensitive globalities. She has published in Art History, Afterimage, ICOM Routledge, Wasafiri, and Tate, and has contributed writing for the International Curators Forum. With Dr Giulia Smith and curator Daniella Rose King, she is co-editor of Caribbean Eco-Aesthetics: Artistic Strategies for Planetary Survival (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2025), a volume that emerged from the online research series ‘Biotic Resistance’ (2021).
She was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art (2021–24), Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews (2020–21) and St Anne’s College, Oxford (2023–25), and a Research Fellow in the studio of Sir Frank Bowling OBE (2024–25). She completed her PhD at the University of St Andrews in 2020, funded by the Horizon 2020 EU–LAC Museums project.
At Oxford, she offers undergraduate and graduate courses on art, ecology, collaborative practice, curating, and critical theory – including her BFA1 course ‘Are We Nearly There Yet? Landscape and Art from Then til Now and Back Again.’
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