Graduate Student

Henry Skerritt is an art historian, curator and songwriter hailing from Perth in Western Australia. Skerritt is currently a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2015, he edited the book No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting published by Prestel Publishing and the Nevada Museum of Art, and was a consulting curator on the touring exhibition of the same name. Skerritt has written extensively on Aboriginal art and culture, including contributions to the publications Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art in Australia (Harvard Art Museums, 2016); Ngarra: The Texat Drawings (Mossenson Art Foundation, 2015); Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art  (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014); Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art (Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2012); and Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture (Object: Australian Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design, 2009). Skerritt’s writings have also appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Journal of Curatorial Stuides, Pacific Arts, Artlink, Art Monthly Australia, Art Guide Australia, Meanjin, and Artist Profile. Skerritt has been invited to deliver public lectures and presentations at numerous museums, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY), the Toledo Art Museum (Toledo, OH), the Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL), and the Nevada Art Museum (Reno, NV). In 2011, Skerritt curated the exhibition Experimental Gentlemen at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, and in 2016 he curated the exhibition Yimadoowarra: The Art of Loongkoonan at the Kluge-Ruhe Museum at the University of Virginia.