Katie Bruhn

Biography

Katherine Bruhn is a scholar of Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art with a geographic focus on Indonesia. Her current book project looks at the work of visual artists associated with the Minangkabau ethnic group. It dismantles the idea that the visual expression of nature in Indonesia was a colonial introduction through an examination of how local cosmologies intersect with environmental history in Minangkabau.

Her research has been supported by fellowships from Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Institute for Indonesian Studies.