Amelia Groom (she/they) is a writer, researcher, and cultural critic with a focus on queer cultural production, feminist theory, the minor, the everyday, the outdoors, the divinatory, the oblique, the body, the bodies, questions of knowledge production(s), divergent temporalities and pleasures, practices of refusal, practices of collective emancipation.

Groom has published essays on topics including Mariah Carey’s refusal to acknowledge time; Scheherazade and the possibilities of “oblique parrhesia”; queer, feminist, and antiracist practices of gossip and “grapevine epistemologies”; mud and swamps and decolonial ecologies; Walter Benjamin and fortune-telling; and (co-authored with M. Ty), the politics and poetics of rust.

As part of the Afterall One Work series, Groom published a book on the Marsh Ruins (1981), a swampy, environmental sculpture by the artist Beverly Buchanan, who made secretive and ruinous monuments to Black history in the Deep South.

Groom’s research and writing have often returned to questions of time: its nonlinear undercurrents, its blockages and trickling detours, and the urgent need for its collective re-routing. Together with Rachael Rakes, she co-edited the online journal No Linear Fucking Time (published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht).

Groom’s writing has appeared in e-flux Journal, Movement Research Performance Journal, Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal, Frieze Magazine, The Contemporary Journal (Nottingham Contemporary), and Diacritics Journal, among others. They have been commissioned to write for publications and monographs published by Mousse, Spector Books, Sternberg Press, Tate Publishing, Sigloi Press, Kettle’s Yard (University of Cambridge), Art Hub Copenhagen, Archive Books Berlin, State of Concept (Athens), If I Can’t Dance (Amsterdam), de Appel (Amsterdam), The Swiss Institute (New York), Stedelijk Museum Bureau (Amsterdam), The Lithuanian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, The Romanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Arts Council Korea: Artist Research-Study-Critique, CAC Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius (Lithuania), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne), and others.

PhD in Art History & Theory (University of Sydney, 2014). Postdoctoral Fellow at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, as part of the “environs” focus (2018–2020). Postdoctoral Researcher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2021-2022). Teaching theory and writing on various MFA programs at the Sandberg Institut in Amsterdam (2014–2025).

Groom was raised in Sydney, on unceded Gadigal land. From 2014-2025, they lived in Amsterdam and Berlin. She recently moved to Santa Cruz, Northern California, on the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe, for a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz (2025–2027).

Groom is currently working on a monograph that looks at the art and antifascist activism of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore through the lenses of queer and trans ecologies.

Contact: My email is my first name followed by my last name at gmail dotcom.