Altair Brandon-Salmon

Bio

Altair Brandon-Salmon is a lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) programme. He is an art historian writing a book on how bombsites shaped British art and architecture during the twentieth century. More broadly, he focuses on British and American art which is intertwined with violence, memory, and mortality.

His scholarship has been published by Art History, Art Journal, and the Oxford Art Journal, written exhibition catalogue essays for the Cantor Arts Center and the Museum Barberini, and given lectures at the Courtauld Institute of Art, the University of York, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. His essays have appeared in America, Commonweal, Literary Review, and Public Seminar, while his fiction has been published by The Isis and the Oxford Review of Books. He is currently editing a volume for the Roxburghe Club on the eighteenth-century antiquarian, archaeologist, and Jacobite dissident James Byres.

Brandon-Salmon is the curatorial assistant at the Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford, and a guest curator with Projects Twenty Two in Cornwall, England. Previously, he was the assistant curator at Campion Hall, University of Oxford.

He is represented by Orli Vogt-Vincent at David Higham Associates.

Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, Art History (2024)
M.St., Christ Church, University of Oxford, History of Art (2019)
B.A., Wadham College, University of Oxford, History of Art (2018)

Academic Appointments

• Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education