Dr Nina Sellars is an artist, writer, and curator whose research area focuses on the contemporary and historical influence of anatomy on our understanding of the human and posthuman body. Her recent projects include Drawing Breath >< Gut Feelings: An Experimental Art Lab for Contemporary Dance (2023) originally designed for University of Melbourne and presented for the anthropology and medical historians’ conference and exhibition Comparative Guts, Kiel University. In 2022, she was a lecturer in Figure and Life and Art in the Digital Age, School of Art & Design, Australian National University; a visiting research fellow at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia and also a curator for ANAT SPECTRA: Multiplicity. Previously, she was curator of exhibitions and programs at the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Melbourne (2019-2021); artist in residence at SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia (2016-2018); research fellow at the Alternate Anatomies Lab (robotics and art research group), Curtin University, Perth, W.A. (2013-2015). Recent exhibitions of her artwork include: The Brain Observatory, San Diego—Brains (2022-2024); Riga Stradins University Anatomy Museum, Riga, Latvia—Anatomy & Beyond (2021-2022); Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts—HyperPrometheus: The Legacy of Frankenstein (2018). Recent authored publications include—‘Fat Matters: Fluid Interventions in Anatomy’, in Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body, ANU Press, 2020, and ‘Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: a historical guide to navigating contemporary images’, in Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies, 2021.
Dr Nina Sellars is an artist, writer, and curator whose research area focuses on the contemporary and historical influence of anatomy on our understanding of the human and posthuman body. Her recent projects include Drawing Breath >< Gut Feelings: An Experimental Art Lab for Contemporary Dance (2023) originally designed for University of Melbourne and presented for the anthropology and medical historians’ conference and exhibition Comparative Guts, Kiel University. In 2022, she was a lecturer in Figure and Life and Art in the Digital Age, School of Art & Design, Australian National University; a visiting research fellow at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia and also a curator for ANAT SPECTRA: Multiplicity. Previously, she was curator of exhibitions and programs at the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Melbourne (2019-2021); artist in residence at SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia (2016-2018); research fellow at the Alternate Anatomies Lab (robotics and art research group), Curtin University, Perth, W.A. (2013-2015). Recent exhibitions of her artwork include: The Brain Observatory, San Diego—Brains (2022-2024); Riga Stradins University Anatomy Museum, Riga, Latvia—Anatomy & Beyond (2021-2022); Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts—HyperPrometheus: The Legacy of Frankenstein (2018). Recent authored publications include—‘Fat Matters: Fluid Interventions in Anatomy’, in Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body, ANU Press, 2020, and ‘Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: a historical guide to navigating contemporary images’, in Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies, 2021.