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Amanda Cachia is a Lecturer in Art History, Visual Culture, and Curatorial Studies at Otis College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, California State University Long Beach, and California State University San Marcos. As an independent curator and critic, she bridges academic research with activist practice, focusing on disability, decolonization, and multisensory exhibition design.
- Education: PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism from the University of California, San Diego (2017).
Her research interrogates the politics of access, embodied disability language, and institutional critique. She is currently working on two book projects: Disability, Art, Agency: Participation and the Revision of the Senses (Duke University Press) and the edited volume Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (Routledge, 2022).
Recent articles explore crip curation, prosthetic aesthetics, and decolonizing museums. She has curated over 40 exhibitions, including Sweet Gongs Vibrating (2016) and The Flesh of the World (2015), which challenge normative sensory hierarchies.
- Awards: Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, Millard Meiss Publication Grant.
- Leadership: caa.reviews Field Editor for West Coast Exhibitions (2020-2023).
