ANDREW CUMMINGS

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Andrew Cummings (b. 1990, Wakefield, UK) is a London-based art historian, curator, and writer. Consisting of research, writing, curating, and collaboration, Andrew’s practice is broadly interested in the possibilities and limits of contemporary art for meaningfully engaging with overlooked, hidden, or otherwise unacknowledged forces, experiences, and infrastructures.

Andrew first explored these interests in their doctoral thesis in art history (The Courtauld/Tate, 2023), which framed tactics of alienation and science fiction as a means of surfacing buried histories of dehumanisation. From 2022 to 2025, Andrew was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Decolonising Arts Institute (University of the Arts London) on the project Transforming Collections, which sought to surface hidden biases in art collections across Britain, focusing on work by David Medalla and Hamad Butt. 

Current projects focus on Britain’s imperial legacies with artists Theodoulos Polyviou (Cyprus) and Jing Tan (China); overlooked energy and data infrastructures; and communal grief-tending in contemporary art. Andrew has also trained as an End-of-Life Doula with Living Well Dying Well, completed a six-month peer inquiry group around death, grief, and endings, and Apprenticed to Grief with Sophy Banks, Jeremy Thres, Sarah Pletts, and Aama Sade.

Andrew’s writing has been published by Tate Papers and Pilot Press. Previous exhibitions and programmes include Dark Factory (MMCA Korea), A History of Future Contagion (Spike Island/The Courtauld), and Museum x Machine x Me (Tate). Recent and upcoming residencies and fellowships include MMCA Korea, the Gwangju Biennale, and Tokyo Arts and Space.