BRIAN CASTRIOTA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL & TIME-BASED MEDIA CONSERVATORABOUT
Dr Brian Castriota is a researcher, educator, and conservator specialised in time-based media, contemporary art, and archaeological materials.
He is Lecturer in Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media at University College London (2023–) and Time-Based Media Conservator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2018–). From 2018 to 2026 he was Time-Based Media Conservator at the National Galleries Scotland where he established their time-based media conservation infrastructure and procedures. He previously held Lecturer positions at the University of Glasgow and the Institute of Fine Arts - NYU. He served as Supervising Conservator with Harvard Art Museums’ Archaeological Exploration of Sardis from 2018 to 2023 and has worked on various excavations in Turkey, Italy, and Egypt since 2011.
Brian has published widely on conservation theory and practice. His scholarship has examined how ideas from poststructuralism, queer theory, agential realism, and feminist and anti-colonial critique rework sedimented practices of conservation, particularly in relation to contemporary art, its musealisation, and its documentation for conservation purposes. His current research-practice explores conservation as a practice of relational world-making and reparative justice, and the diverse forms that it might take.
Brian completed graduate-level training in conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts - NYU (2014), he was a Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Time-Based Media Conservation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2014–2016), and he received a PhD in History of Art from the University of Glasgow (2019) as part of the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłowdoska-Curie ITN New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA).
He is an Associate Editor of Studies in Conservation, Assistant Coordinator of ICOM-CC’s Theory, History, and Ethics of Conservation Working Group, and he serves on the Committee of ICON’s Contemporary Art Group.
He is Lecturer in Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media at University College London (2023–) and Time-Based Media Conservator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2018–). From 2018 to 2026 he was Time-Based Media Conservator at the National Galleries Scotland where he established their time-based media conservation infrastructure and procedures. He previously held Lecturer positions at the University of Glasgow and the Institute of Fine Arts - NYU. He served as Supervising Conservator with Harvard Art Museums’ Archaeological Exploration of Sardis from 2018 to 2023 and has worked on various excavations in Turkey, Italy, and Egypt since 2011.
Brian has published widely on conservation theory and practice. His scholarship has examined how ideas from poststructuralism, queer theory, agential realism, and feminist and anti-colonial critique rework sedimented practices of conservation, particularly in relation to contemporary art, its musealisation, and its documentation for conservation purposes. His current research-practice explores conservation as a practice of relational world-making and reparative justice, and the diverse forms that it might take.
Brian completed graduate-level training in conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts - NYU (2014), he was a Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Time-Based Media Conservation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2014–2016), and he received a PhD in History of Art from the University of Glasgow (2019) as part of the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłowdoska-Curie ITN New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA).
He is an Associate Editor of Studies in Conservation, Assistant Coordinator of ICOM-CC’s Theory, History, and Ethics of Conservation Working Group, and he serves on the Committee of ICON’s Contemporary Art Group.
