Lecturer in Art History at the University of Cape Town, PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Amie Soudien (she/her) is a lecturer in Art History and Discourse of Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Her research is invested in the intersections of art, history and gender studies concerning histories of enslavement in South Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries. In her work, she explores the commemoration of enslavement in South Africa through contemporary art, performance, and other creative practices.

Her writing is featured in the NIHSS Award-winning Pamela Sunstrum Creative Book (2020), the anthology ArtThrob: 25 Years of Art Writing in South Africa (2023), and the edited volume Spaces of Care: Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums (2023), among other publications. She is the editor of Lesser Violence: Volume 1 (2022) published by MaThoko's Books (an imprint of the GALA Queer Archive), and the co-editor of Standing Items: Critical pedagogies in South African art, design and architecture (2020). 

Over the course of her career, Soudien has worked at a number of leading cultural organisations and institutions including the GALA Queer Archive, the District Six Museum, the Wits School of Arts, and the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre. She has held fellowships at the Institute of Creative Arts, University of Cape Town (2016) and the Research Centre for Material Culture, Wereldmuseum (2024). 

Soudien is a graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (BAFA, 2013), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) (MA, 2016), and has completed her PhD in History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) (2024).