Professor, O Cavalheiro Anthony Alan Shelton
BA (Hull), MLitt (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), FCMA
My CV
Current Position
2017 - 2021
Professor of Art History, Visual Art & Theory
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Education
2002
1978
1976
Oxford University. D.Phil., Social Anthropology.
Thesis: The Wixarica. A Highland Peoples of NorthWest Mexico
Oxford University. M. Litt., Social Anthropology.
Thesis: Some Problems in the Comparative Study of the Concept of Time
Hull University. B.A. (Hons.), Upper Second in Sociology and Social Anthropology
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
Museum Appointments
2004-2021
Director, Museum of Anthropology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1998 - 2001
Head of Collections, Research and Development The Horniman Museum, London, UK
1991 - 1995
Keeper, Non-Western Art, and Anthropology & Founding Director, The Green Centre for Non-Western Art and Culture The Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton, UK
1985 - 1991
Curator, American Collections, British Museum, Department of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind) London, UK
Academic Appointments
2017 - present
Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Course: Advanced Seminar in Critical Museum Anthropology / Case Studies in Museum and Gallery Exhibitions
2004 - 2016
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver Course: Advanced Seminar in Critical Museum Anthropology / Case Studies in Museum and Gallery Exhibitions
Fellowships
2007 - Present
1998 - 2002
1991 - 1995
Fellow, and Member of Common Room Green College, University of British Columbia
Honorary Research Fellow Department of Anthropology, University College London Course: Museum Anthropology (1999-2001)
Research Fellow School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex
1989 - 1990
Visiting Fellow Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
OTHER APPOINTMENTS AND CONSULTANCIES
Editorial & Advisory Boards
academic committees (non-UBC)
UBC committees
UBC Museum of Anthropology committees
community and external committees
Curated Exhibtions
2017 | Curator, Do Carnaval à Luta Livre: Máscaras e Devoções Mexicanas, Museu de Lisboa, Lisbon.
2015 | Curator, Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between. Portuguese Popular Art, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
2013 | Curator, Luminescence: The Silver of Peru, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto
2012 | Curator, Luminescence: The Silver of Peru, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
2010 | Curator, Latin American and Iberian collections, Multiversity Galleries, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
2002 | Co-curator (with Nicky Levell), The Centenary Gallery: 100 Years of Collecting, Horniman Museum, London
1999-2004 | Curator of five exhibitions of contemporary African artists responding to African Worlds, Horniman Museum, London
1999 | Curator, African Worlds. Horniman Museum, London
1995 | Curator, Fetishism. Southbank Touring Exhibitions (venues: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; Norwich Museum and Nottingham Museum)
1994 | Curator, Peep (an installation work by Sonia Boyce), Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
1994 | Curator, Hold. Recent Works by Shirley Chubb. Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
1991 -1992 | Co-curator (with Louise Tythacott), Kinyozi: The Art of African Hairstyles. Brighton Museum and Art Gallery (venues in Hastings, Manchester and Vienna)
1991 | Curator, Epic, Dream, Satire: Puppet Theatre. Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
1991 | Curator, Exotics; North American Indian Culture and Europeans. Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
1987 | Curator, Bolivian Worlds: The Art and World-view of an Andean Mining Community, British Museum (Museum of Mankind)
1986 | Curator, Casas Grandes. British Museum (Museum of Mankind)
1985 | Curator, Images of Heaven, Images of Earth: Mexican Indian Masks. Wolfson College, Oxford
Exhibition Consultation
Concept development, Multiversity Galleries, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
Consultant, Offerings for a New Life. Funerary Images from Pre-Columbian West Mexico. Antwerp Ethnographic Museum
Consultant, What is Jewellery ? Craft Council Gallery, London
Consultant, Altars and Idols: The Life of the Dead in Mexico. University of Essex Gallery, Colchester
1989 Consultant, Latin American Art. Hayward Gallery, London (venues in Stockholm and Madrid)