Aaron Richmond (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and curator. He holds a PhD in Architectural History and Theory from McGill University and currently serves as a post-doctoral researcher at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology at Concordia University.

His doctoral dissertation, Doctors of L’Esprit nouveau: Energy, Psychology, and the Modern Aesthetic Subject (1920-1925), examines the medicalization of Modern art and architecture as presented in the French periodical L’Esprit nouveau(1920-1925). This research was conducted as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany, with additional support from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Since 2021, Aaron’s research has expanded to include transdisciplinarity, critical accessibility, and disability art activism. In a nationwide, CCA-funded research collaboration with Mass Culture, Danse-Cité, and Montréal arts interculturels, he investigated contemporary dance practices for blind and partially sighted audiences. This partnership culminated in Access in Counterpoint (2022), a critical framework addressing accessibility issues in the performing arts.

Before pursuing his PhD at McGill, Aaron earned a BA from the University of King’s College, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He was the recipient of the 2015 Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship and the 2016 Robert Motherwell Fellowship, both awarded through the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Aaron was also the 2017-2018 P. Lantz Artist-in-Residence at McGill University. His art-critical writings have been featured in The Brooklyn Rail and e-flux.