Tintin Wulia

Tintin Wulia is a Senior Researcher at HDK-Valand/Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, and a Visiting Research Fellow at LSE's Department of International History. She leads the ERC-funded Things for Politics’ Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change (2023-2028) and has held prestigious grants including a 2021 ERC Starting Grant. Her work spans art, research, and activism, focusing on borders, migration, and critical geopolitics.

• Principal Investigator: Protocols of Killings: 1965, distance, and the ethics of future warfare (Swedish Research Council, 2021-2023)
• Collaborator on SSHRC-funded Rethinking Declassification (2024-2030)
• Member of 1965 Setiap Hari, Make Your Own Passport network, and Power, Resistance and Social Change research group

Research interests include migration, materiality, aesthetic cosmopolitanism, and political ecology. Major exhibitions include solo shows at the Venice Biennale (2017) and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2024). Notable awards include the Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship (2014-2016) and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2018).

• Publications span art journals, conferences, and edited volumes addressing art's role in social change
• Active in residencies globally, including UCL Slade School, Hyde Park Art Center, and Davidson College