Emily Verla Bovino, PhD, is an art historian, artist and art writer who works with curation in research and writing, studying curating in relation to political economies and philosophies of care. She is presently Assistant Professor of Art History at York College, City University of New York in Jamaica, Queens. Her research focuses on the role of concepts in art practice; the lecture as a format in contemporary art; curatorial practice and research; art criticism as an expanded field; and intersections between contemporary art, architecture, urbanism and film. She is currently working on projects on art and ecology.

Born in Queens, she spent formative years in Hong Kong from 1984 to 1991 and Italy from 2001 to 2010. She received her BA in Urban Studies and Anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University and studied Studio Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. She was part of the Corso Superiore di Arti Visive at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti under Visiting Artist Walid Raad in 2009 and received her MA and PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism with a Concentration in Practice at the University of California, San Diego.

She returned to Hong Kong in 2018 as Professor of Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Hong Kong where she started the curatorial initiative Art Now! for the former North Kowloon Magistracy. From 2022 to 2023, she was a Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong. In 2021, she was awarded an M+/Design Trust Research Fellowship in Design and Architecture at the M+ Museum of Visual Culture for a project on miniature, including micro-scale models of Hong Kong street scenes, collectible model buses and soft-vinyl designer toys.

Her writing has appeared in Ocula, Mousse, Spike Art Quarterly, Architectural Review, Pin Up, Frieze, Art Papers, Art Margins Online and Artforum.com. She is a regular contributor to the Italian journal Engramma of the Università IUAV di Venezia and her research has been published in Museum Anthropology and the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

As an artist, she has been hosted for artist residencies at SOMA (Mexico City), Fieldwork: Marfa (Texas) and Futura (Czech Republic) and has collaborated with soundpocket (Hong Kong), Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory (Utrecht), Altar Projects (San Francisco), and the Gulf Labor Coalition (New York). Her work has been presented with the Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and the Arts (Hong Kong), the & Now Festival of New Writing (San Diego), Robert Walser Zentrum (Bern), Kunstraum Oktagon (Bern), Viafarini (Milan), ETC galerie (Czech Republic) and ApexArt (New York), among others.

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