Allie Mickle (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the History of Art department. 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 Mandarin coursework at East China Normal University. She has worked on curatorial projects at a variety of institutions, most notably Urban Arts Space, the Flaten Art Museum, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her writing has appeared in numerous exhibition materials and in the Asian Art Newspaper. Her research interests include contemporary Chinese art, video art installation, artists' cinema, and the aesthetics of production. Her dissertation, “Picturing the Factory of the World: Artists’ Cinema, China and Global Commodity Chains,” explores how contemporary artists use cinematic tactics and conventions to visualize and mediate the various scale(s) of Chinese commodity production and circulation in the twenty-first century.