Allie Mickle (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the History of Art department with a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Film Studies. She received her BA in Art History and Asian Studies with a concentration in Chinese Studies from St. Olaf College and her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Oregon. She completed Chinese language coursework at East China Normal University.

She is a scholar of global contemporary art and cinema with a background in Chinese art history. Her research interests include artists’ cinema, video art installation, and contemporary Chinese art. Her dissertation, Picturing the Factory of the World: Artists’ Cinema, China and Global Commodity Chains, explores how contemporary artists use cinematic tactics to visualize the logistics of China’s commodity production and global circulation in the twenty-first century.

She has worked on curatorial projects at a variety of art institutions, including Asia Society Hong Kong’s Chantal Miller Gallery, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and the Flaten Art Museum. Her writing has appeared in numerous exhibition materials and in the Asian Art Newspaper. She is currently a Research Associate in the Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts.