Dr. Caroline Vercoe

Associate Professor Caroline Vercoe (Vailima, Sāmoa, Aotearoa New Zealand) teaches Global Art Histories, Māori and Pacific Art History and Visual Culture, and Contemporary Art in Aotearoa New Zealand. She specialises in contemporary Pacific art and performance art, with a particular interest in issues of race, gender and representation, and has been teaching, curating and researching in these areas for thirty years. She has published in the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, the Journal of Pacific History, as well as in many publications including In Pursuit of Venus, Gauguin in Polynesia, Pacific Art Niu Sila, Declaration A Pacific Feminist Agenda, and Empowerment Art and Feminism. She has also published an online bibliography Contemporary Pacific Art for Oxford Bibliographies.