Frank Wasser

Frank Wasser is a Lecturer in Fine Art and Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He holds a DPhil (2025) from the University of Oxford and maintains studios in London and Vienna.

• BA Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2009)
• MFA Sculpture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2012)
• DPhil Fine Art, University of Oxford (2025)

Wasser's research interrogates:

• Institutional Power Structures through performative exhibitions like Title, to be announced (2024), which deconstructs academic thesis conventions
• Embodiment and Chronic Illness in works like On Tenterhooks (2022), which explores body-as-knowledge
• Class/Colonial Legacies via Dublin's industrial histories and PLOT-HOLES (2024) at Oxford

His 2025 Tate Library residency will investigate:

• Documentation practices in British art institutions
• Irish subject positioning in UK archives
• Parainstitutional structures

Awards include:

• Arts Council of Ireland Bursaries (2023-2024)

As The Posthumanist editor and Tate workshop leader, Wasser merges:

• Artist-lecturer duality
• Exhibition-as-research methodology
• Virtual Lectures platform (Arts Council Ireland funded)