Wilson Villaverde
Wilson Villaverde is a senior tutor on the MFA course.
Dr Wilson Villaverde is a writer, educator and curator of artistic inquiry. The focus of his 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), 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) and Transpersonal, Instructions (2018/19) which 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 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 University of the Arts, London and is a Senior Tutor on the MFA Fine Art Programme at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
