Contributor
Cleo Roberts

Dr Cleo Roberts is a writer and a lecturer in contemporary South and South East Asian art at Sotheby’s Institute. She is currently working on her first book on the history of indigo in India.

Reviews , Reviews Across Asia
'Ancient Future' Asks Whether We Truly Live in Unprecedented Times

A group show at The Third Line, Dubai, featuring Sophia Al-Maria and Farah Al Qasimi, explores the nostalgia that comes with temporal dislocation  

BY Cleo Roberts | 04 FEB 21
Reviews
Can Artists Exploring the Korean DMZ Critically Engage with its Thorny History?

Or are they destined to succumb to fantasy, nostalgia and divisive stereotypes?

BY Cleo Roberts | 24 OCT 19
Reviews
Cartography, Cartoons and Colonialism in New Work from the Philippines

A group show at SOAS, London, explores the complex, often violent, cultural legacies that have shaped the country 

BY Cleo Roberts | 04 JUN 19
Reviews
Javanese Epics, German Mystics and Colonial Bloodsucking: Sriwhana Spong at Spike Island

Family history, myth and geopolitics intertwine in the artist’s largest UK show to date

BY Cleo Roberts | 02 MAY 19
Interviews
Radicalism Revisited: An Interview with Art Historian Reiko Tomii

A new show at the Japan Society in New York reflects a career’s research into the emergence of the Japanese avant-garde

BY Cleo Roberts | 11 MAR 19