Aaron Richmond
Contributor Information
Contributor Biography
Aaron Richmond is an artist, scholar, and curator based in Montreal. He holds a PhD in
Architectural History and Theory from McGill University and is currently an affiliated Assistant
Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. He is the author of Laboratory of
Letters: Scientific Aesthetics and the Making of Modern Subjects, forthcoming from
Northwestern University Press.
In 2026–2027, Richmond will be the Leonard A. Lauder Fellow in Modern Art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will be working on Cotyledons: A Catalogue of
Exchanges between the Graphic and Performing Arts. The project asks: when does the mapping
of a situation—whether in the form of an architectural projection, a conceptual schema, or a
choreographic score—become an experimental prompt for bodies in motion? And what kinds of
artworks or artifacts give evidence of this dynamic interplay between graphic form and
performative play?
He will continue developing this line of research while an artist-scholar in residence at the
University of Victoria (UVic) and the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park.
Architectural History and Theory from McGill University and is currently an affiliated Assistant
Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. He is the author of Laboratory of
Letters: Scientific Aesthetics and the Making of Modern Subjects, forthcoming from
Northwestern University Press.
In 2026–2027, Richmond will be the Leonard A. Lauder Fellow in Modern Art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will be working on Cotyledons: A Catalogue of
Exchanges between the Graphic and Performing Arts. The project asks: when does the mapping
of a situation—whether in the form of an architectural projection, a conceptual schema, or a
choreographic score—become an experimental prompt for bodies in motion? And what kinds of
artworks or artifacts give evidence of this dynamic interplay between graphic form and
performative play?
He will continue developing this line of research while an artist-scholar in residence at the
University of Victoria (UVic) and the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park.