Prof. Dr. Suzana Milevska (b. 1961) is a curator and theorist of art and visual culture based in Skopje. Currently she teaches art history and analysis of styles at the Accademia Italiana - Academy of Art and Design in Skopje. From 2006-2008 she was the Director of the Center for Visual and Cultural Research at the Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje. From 2003 to 2005, she taught in the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths College in London, where she completed her PhD in 2006. In 2004, she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. Her research and curatorial interests include postcolonial critique, gender theory, feminist art, participation, activism and socially engaged art. In 2005, she curated The Workers’ Club, an exhibition and conference at the International Contemporary Art Biennial at the National Gallery in Prague. In 2004, she co-curated (with Julia Schaefer) the exhibition The Unbalanced Allocation of Space, and in 2003, curated a television talk show on Leipzig TV as part of Introducing Sites II at the Galerie fuer zeitgenoessische Kunst in Leipzig. Her recent publications include: “Resistance That Cannot Be Recognised as Such – Interview with Gayatri C. Spivak,” in Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (London: Seagull Books, 2007); “Is Balkan Art History Global?” in Is Art History Global?, ed. James Elkins (New York: Routledge, 2006); “Macedonian Art Stories,” in East Art Map, ed. Irwin (London: Afterall, 2006).

Suzana can be contacted at smilevska@sextures.net.