About
Joasia Krysa is a curator and scholar working at the intersection of contemporary art and technology. She is Professor of Exhibition Research at Liverpool John Moores University and holds an adjunct position at Liverpool Biennial. She served as chief curator of Helsinki Biennial 2023, and co-curator of Liverpool Biennial 2016 and dOCUMENTA 13. Her curatorial work was presented at major international institutions including The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, KANAL Centre Pompidou Brussels, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Helsinki Art Museum, and Tate Modern London.
She has held extensive senior management and research leadership roles, including Director of The Institute of Art and Technology (IAT) and Head of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University; Chair of FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Panel: Art and Design, 2024-2025) Portugal; UKRI Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 and forthcoming REF 2028 (Panel member: Art and Design). She served as Expert Scientific Advisor and Reviewer, including for Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland, Austrian Science Fund, The Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Queen’s University; National Science Centre (NCN) Poland; New School, New York, Royal Holloway, University of London, MIT - Massechussets Institute of Technology, Aalto University Helsinki, and Aarhus University, Denmark.
Recent Keynotes include British Council and the Benaki Museum’s annual conference Co-Museum (Athens, 2025), Arts Council Korea and ARKO Art Center’s Korean Pavilion 30th Anniversary Exhibition at Venice Biennale 2024 (Venice 2024), Chelsea College of Art (London 2025), Edinburgh College of Art (2025), SVA - School of Visual Arts New York (2024), and Biennale Internationale de Casablanca (2022).
Major publications include co-edited book Curating Intelligences: Reader on AI and Future Curating (London: Open Humanities Press, 2025), a chapter in Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of New Media Art (London 2025), co-edited Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History (MIT Press 2015), and forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Art and Technology (2027).
