Ryann Donnelly is an artist and academic interested in the relationship between biopolitics and subversive bodily representation in queer and feminist performance and sculptural practices since 1960. She completed a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017. She has published two books with Repeater Books: Justify My Love: Sex, Subversion, and Music Video in 2019 and Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse in 2025.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor in Art History, School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex

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