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Alex Kershaw

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Acting Head of PhotoMedia at National Art School
📍 Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

Dr. Alex Kershaw is the Acting Head of PhotoMedia at the National Art School in Sydney. As an artist, scholar, and educator, he specializes in photography, video installation, and documentary film, holding a PhD from the University of California, San Diego where he focused on Art History, Theory, and Criticism.

His artistic practice involves long-term, fieldwork-based engagement with diverse communities. He focuses on mediating intercultural exchange, often turning his subjects into active participants and collaborators in the work, exploring their relationship with the natural world through performative and cinematic genres.

He has worked on a feature-length documentary film about the culture of hunting in the Northeastern United States.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Acting Head of PhotoMedia
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
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Socially-Engaged Art
His work involves making community members collaborators and he has contributed to "FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism".
Intercultural Exchange
A core theme in his art practice, where he uses photography and video to mediate exchanges with communities both adjacent to and outside his own culture.
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Career

Work history

7-2021
Acting Head of PhotoMedia
National Art School
8-2020 - 7-2024
Lecturer
California State University, Bakersfield
9-2018 - 3-2019
Graduate Writing Consultant: Teaching + Learning Commons
University of California San Diego
9-2015 - 6-2018
Instructor: Muir College Writing Program
University of California San Diego
9-2012 - 5-2016
Teaching Assistant and Reader: Visual Arts Department
University of California San Diego
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Staff - National Art School (Alex Kershaw listed as Acting Head of PhotoMedia). Featured in National Art School
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Education
11-2012 - 5-2020
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
UC San Diego
2012 - 2016
Master of Arts - MA
UC San Diego
2007 - 2010
Master of Fine Arts - MFA
UNSW
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