Kirk Patrick Hilario TESTA
Education
- Master of Arts in History of Art, specializing in global conceptual art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
- Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Philosophy, Vassar College, New York, USA
- Visiting Scholar and Teaching Assistant, Fulbright University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Internship Manager, Dogma Collection, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Curator-in-Residence, Sotiris Felios Collection, Athens, Greece
- Museum Intern, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
- Curatorial Intern for Photography, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
- Curatorial Intern for Latin American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA
- Assistant to the Curator of Prints and Drawings, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, USA
- Contemporary art curation:
- ‘In Conversation with Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist’, The Courtauldian, 27: 36–43, 2022.
- Histories and theories of photography:
- ‘Review of Joanna Zylinska, Nonhuman Photography’, Vassar Journal of Philosophy, 6: 76–79, 2019.
- ‘Beyond the Humanist Eye: Joanna Zylinska Interview’, Vassar Journal of Philosophy, 6: 80–101, 2019.
- Aesthetic theory:
- ‘A Review of Giorgio Agamben, Taste’, Vassar Journal of Philosophy, 5: 59–61, 2018.
- Decolonial and postcolonial approaches to Southeast Asian art
- Restitution, repatriation, and the role of international law in shaping museum and collections practices
- Global contemporary art and the politics of memory, representation, identity, and power
- Association for Asian Studies
- Henry Luce Scholarship, Vietnam
- Artes-CEEH Fieldwork Scholarship, Madrid, Spain
- Walter N. Maguire Fellowship for Graduate Study Abroad, London, UK
- Ann Cornelisen Language Study and Cultural Immersion Fellowship, Lyon, France
- Tananbaum Family Work Development Fellowship, New York, USA
- QuestBridge Match Scholarship, New York, USA
