Dr Wilson Villaverde

Biography

Dr Wilson Villaverde is a writer, educator and curator of artistic inquiry. The focus of their research involves connecting art with other disciplines and processes. Current research involves creative health across art and design practices with an emphasis on disability, race and gender.

Since completing a doctorate at the Royal College of Art, co-edited publications include: Memories of the Future: On Countervision (Peter Lang 2017), The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu (Routledge 2018), Bless The Work (Racial Imaginary Institute, 2025) alongside occasionally writing for Art Monthly, ArtReview, ArtReview Asia and TATE among others.

Curated projects include London’s ICA In-Formation alongside a series of public programmes, titled: Where Theory Belongs (2015), Decommissioned (2016), Transpersonal: Art & Life Directives (2017) and We Want Everything (2018). Transpersonal, Instructions (2018/19) culminated in a large–scale international exhibition and conference spanning institutions at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany, ICA London, and University of Philippines, Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center. Wilson is a curatorial member of the Racial Imaginary Institute [TRII] and co-curated: On Nationalism 2022 The Fragility and the Possibility of ‘We’ and ‘Listening For the Unsaid’. Alongside more recently participating in For Real For Real (2025) curated by TRII for the DAADGalerie in Berlin.

Previous appointments include: External Examiner for Critical & Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art [2015-2019], LUCA School of the Art in Brussels, Belgium [2018], and the Academie Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK) Amsterdam, Netherlands [2011], in addition to a Visiting Scholarship at Columbia University in the Department of Anthropology [2015-16], a Visiting Professorship at the Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, University of the Philippines [2018-19] and a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College, University of Oxford [2022-23]. Wilson presently holds a position as senior lecturer and postgraduate theory coordinator at CCW University of the Arts London and is a Senior Tutor on the MFA Fine Art Programme at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University.

Available for PhD supervision.