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Olga Sooudi is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the AISSR Moving Matters Research Group. She is also a member of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Academic Committee. In 2011-2013, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies.
Education
PhD: Anthropology, Yale University; MPhil: Anthropology, Yale University; BA: Literature and French Studies, Duke University.
Research
Sooudi's research interests are in art markets, creative labor, and globalization, especially in Asian contexts, and she has conducted fieldwork in Mumbai, Tokyo, and New York City. Her research focuses on how the production and circulation of art are shaped by the market and on artistic labor. Her ongoing writing on the Mumbai art ecosystem examines marketization’s impacts since the 2000s onwards on the production and circulation of fine art, transformations in art infrastructure, as well as market influences on artists and artistic careers and how artists negotiate these. She is also the author of Japanese New York: Migrant artists and self-reinvention on the world stage (2014), an ethnographic study of Japanese artists and the links between migration, creative work, and self-reinvention.
Sooudi, O. K. (2023). From Mumbai to London: Co-constituting value in art from India via local and global circuits of valuation. In O. Salemink, A. Siegel Corrêa, J. Sejrup, & V. Nielsen (Eds.), Global art in local artworlds: Changing Hierarchies of Value (pp. 193-217). (Materializing Culture). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003128908-20[details]
Sooudi, O. K. (2022). Neoliberalism and sustainability in the art ecosystem. In S. Patel, D. Parthasarathy, & G. Jose (Eds.), Mumbai/Bombay: Neoliberal Majoritarianism, Informality, Resistance and Wellbeing Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Sooudi, O. K. (2015). Morality and exchange in the Mumbai contemporary art world. In O. Velthuis, & S. Baia Curioni (Eds.), Cosmopolitan canvases: the globalization of markets for contemporary art (pp. 264-284). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717744.003.0012[details]
2014
Sooudi, O. K. (2014). Japanese New York: Migrant Artists and Self-Reinvention on the World-Stage. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [details]
2012
Sooudi, O. K. (2012). Art patron as 'taste scapegoat'? Complicity and disavowal in Mumbai's contemporary art world. Etnofoor, 24(2), 123-143. [details]
Sooudi, O. K. (2010). Connoisseurs of urban life: aesthetic practices and the everyday among Japanese migrants in New York City. In R. G. Davis, D. Fischer-Nornung, & J. C. Kardux (Eds.), Aesthetic practices and politics in media, music, and art: performing migration (pp. 212-226). (Routledge research in cultural and media studies; No. 26). New York: Routledge. [details]
2022
Sooudi, O. K. (2022). Collectors as patrons. Seminar - The Monthly Symposium, (753).
Sooudi, O. (2018). The New Infrastructure for Art and the Rise of Neoliberal Economies in the Gulf: Auction Houses, Galleries, Fairs and the Art Market in the Middle East and Beyond. In S. Mikdadi, & N. Shabout (Eds.), The Global Circulation of Art and the New Markets: Abu Dhabi Art Talks 2018 (pp. 36-39). Abu Dhabi: Department of Culture and Tourism, for Abu Dhabi Art. [details]
Sooudi, O. K. (2017). Remaking Japan through Transnational Encounters, Difference, and Struggles for Social Equality: [Review of: J.D. Hankins (2014) Working skin : making leather, making a multicultural Japan; I.-A. Laemmerhirt (2013) Embracing differences : transnational cultural flows between Japan and the United States; D.J. Milly (2014) New policies for new residents : immigrants, advocacy, and governance in Japan and beyond; K. Tsuchiya (2014) Reinventing citizenship : Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and community participation]. The Journal of Asian Studies, 76(3), 802-812. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817000651[details]
Sooudi, O. K. (2019). Review of: Joanna Grabski (2017) Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar. City & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12220
2018
Sooudi, O. K. (Author). (2018). Olga Sooudi, anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam, and the author of Japanese New York: Migrant Artists and Self-Reinvention on the World Stage, on the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City (Podcast). Web publication/site, The Gotham Center for New York City History. Retrieved from https://www.gothamcenter.org/ohny-podcasts.html
2011
Sooudi, O. K., & Gandhi, A. (2011). The exceptional Asian: the fetish for culture in India and Japan. IIAS Newsletter, 56, 8-9.
Sooudi, O. (2020-2023). Member of Academic Committee, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden.
Sooudi, O. (2016-2020). Member of Academic Committee, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden.
Talk / presentation
Sooudi, O. (speaker) (14-11-2018). Navigating the system: how artists relate to galleries and alternative art spaces in Mumbai, Abu Dhabi Art Talks, Abu Dhabi Art .
Others
Nooteboom, G. (organiser), Sooudi, O. K. (organiser) & Baas, M. (participant) (12-6-2018 - 13-6-2018). Movement as Interregnum: People, Technologies, Goods, and Ideas, Singapore (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
Sooudi, O. (participant) (2018 - 2019). Judge for ICAS Book Prize, Social Sciences Reading Committee, ICAS (other).
2017
Lertchavalitsakul, B. (2017). Living with four polities: States and cross-border flows in the Myanmar-Thailand borderland. [details]
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Sooudi, O. K. (2023). From Mumbai to London: Co-constituting value in art from India via local and global circuits of valuation. In O. Salemink, A. Siegel Corrêa, J. Sejrup, & V. Nielsen (Eds.), Global art in local artworlds: Changing Hierarchies of Value (pp. 193-217). (Materializing Culture). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003128908-20 [details]
Sooudi, O. K. (2023). From Mumbai to London: Co-constituting value in art from India via local and global circuits of valuation. In O. Salemink, A. Siegel Corrêa, J. Sejrup, & V. Nielsen (Eds.), Global art in local artworlds: Changing Hierarchies of Value (pp. 193-217). (Materializing Culture). Routledge.