For best experience please turn on javascript and use a modern browser!
You are using a browser that is no longer supported by Microsoft. Please upgrade your browser. The site may not present itself correctly if you continue browsing.
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. (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.
2021
Sooudi, O. K. (Accepted/In press). From Mumbai to London: Co-constituting value in art from India via local and global circuits of valuation. In Global art in local artworlds: De-centering and re-centering Europe in the global hierarchy of value (Materializing Culture). 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. K. (2022). Spațiile alternative ca strategii ale autodeterminării artistice: Mumbai, studiu de caz (Alternative spaces as strategies for artist agency: Mumbai as case study). Revista - Arta, (54-55), 26-29.
2018
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]
The UvA website uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure the basic functionality of the site and for statistical and optimisation purposes. It also uses cookies to display content such as YouTube videos and for marketing purposes. This last category consists of tracking cookies: these make it possible for your online behaviour to be tracked. You consent to this by clicking on Accept. Also read our Privacy statement
Necessary
Cookies that are essential for the basic functioning of the website. These cookies are used to enable students and staff to log in to the site, for example.
Necessary & Optimalisation
Cookies that collect information about visitor behaviour anonymously to help make the website work more effectively.
Necessary & Optimalisation & Marketing
Cookies that make it possible to track visitors and show them personalised adverts. These are used by third-party advertisers to gather data about online behaviour. To watch Youtube videos you need to enable this category.
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. (2012). Art patron as 'taste scapegoat'? Complicity and disavowal in Mumbai's contemporary art world. Etnofoor, 24(2), 123-143.