Art historian, writer, curator

Research

Anna Arabindan-Kesson is a historian of Black Diasporic Art.

Select list of articles and book chapters

“Containment or Contamination: Visualizing the Plantation Hospital in the Americas” in Basile Baudez and Victoria Bergbauer (eds), Carceral Architecture (Berlin, Jovis, 2025)

“Confabulations: Making Meaning from Medicine” for Fiona Johnstone and Allison Morehead (eds) Art and The Critical Medical Humanities, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2025

“Plantation Returns in Contemporary Art” in Ekow Eshun, Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art, (London, Thames and Hudson, June 2025)

A Dream of Italy: Black Artists and Travel in the Nineteenth-Century in Ananda Cohen-Aponte et al, Smarthistory Academic Reader

“The Caribbean Dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance,” in Eddie Chambers, (ed), The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History (New York: Routledge 2024)

“Photography and Indentureship in Suriname” in Wayne Modest and Wendeline Flores (ed), Our Colonial Inheritances, (Lannoo Publishers, Amsterdam, NL, 2023) pp 96-106

“Black in Britain: Seeing Beyond Nation” in Ian Mclean et al, What is Postnational Art History? (Melbourne: Perimeter Books, 2023)

“Notes from the Joint: Collage Ethics” NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, May 2023

“Death of a Queen” in Collision 82: October 2022

‘Transmission and Transfer: Plantation Imagery and Medical Management in the British Empire’, Art History, 45: 3, 2022, 472-497

“The Viral and The Virus: Representations of Parangi in Colonial Sri Lanka” Ars Orientalis 51, 2021, pp 286-325

“What is Tamil For Loss? Remembering the Sri Lankan Civil War” Warscapes, May 19, 2019

“Family Jules: No Naked Niggahs by Barkley L Hendricks” for Tate in Focus, Fall 2017