Brenda L Croft

Brenda L Croft is a Professor in Indigenous Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University (ANU), affiliated with the Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the College of Arts & Social Sciences. She is also an Adjunct Fellow at UNSW Art & Design and has held roles including Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia. Her research focuses on Indigenous auto-ethnography, cultural memory, and First Nations Storywork, emphasizing collaboration with Aboriginal communities.

Education: Honorary Doctorate (Visual Arts) from the University of Sydney (2009), Master of Art Administration from UNSW (1995), and a PhD from UNSW (2021).

• Research Interests:
  • Indigenous contemporary visual arts
  • Critical Indigenous Studies
  • Archival practices
  • Embodied cultural archaeology

Publications span exhibitions, academic journals, and curated catalogues, including the Still in my mind project (2018–2021). Key awards include the ARC Discovery Indigenous Award (2012) and ANU Research Excellence Awards (2022–2023). She is set to hold the Gough Whitlam Chair at Harvard in 2024.

Awards and Grants: Extensive grants include ARC funding and fellowships. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public collections.