Lauren Walden

Dr. Lauren Walden was recently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Art at Birmingham City University. Her PhD argued for Surrealist photography as a pivotal vector in the dissemination of non-European iconographies as diverse as Africa, Oceania, Latin America and China, utilising primary sources in French, Spanish and Chinese. Her core research interests lie in Surrealism, Franco-Chinese cultural exchange, history of photography, cosmopolitanism and global art histories. She has been published in outlets such as Visual Studies, Visual Resources, Visual Anthropology, Photography and Culture and Dada/Surrealism. Her first book Le Surréalisme de Paris à Shanghai was published with the Giacometti Foundation in 2022 and she is currently working on her second monograph Surrealism and the People's Republic of China under contract with Routledge. She has also held Research Fellowships at the Centre for Creative Photography, Arizona and the Henry Moore Foundation in Leeds.