Amanda Cachia is an independent curator from Sydney, Australia and is currently completing her PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation will focus on the intersection of disability and c
...MoreAmanda Cachia is an independent curator from Sydney, Australia and is currently completing her PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation will focus on the intersection of disability and contemporary art. Cachia completed her second Masters degree in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts in 2012. Her MA thesis, entitled "What Can a Body Do? Inscribing and Adjusting Experiences of Disability in Contemporary Art" formed the basis of an exhibition curated by Cachia and hosted by Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, PA in Fall, 2012. Cachia received her first Masters in Creative Curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2001. She held the position Director/Curator of the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada from 2007-2010, and has curated approximately 30 exhibitions over the last ten years in London, New York, Oakland and various cities across Australia and Canada. Her writing has been published in exhibition catalogues, "Canadian Art" and upcoming issues of "Disability Studies Quarterly" and she has lectured and participated in panels at conferences widely. Cachia has been the Chair of the Dwarf Artists Coalition for the Little People of America since 2007.
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