Chris Salter
Christopher Salter is an award-winning curator and researcher, and since 2020 has been Head of Cultures & Histories for Queensland Museum where he is responsible for the museum’s cultural collections and associated research and curatorial projects.
For two decades, he has worked across the arts and cultural sector including museums and galleries, live performance, theatre, and dance at both an executive and board level. An alumni of the Museum’s Australia Leadership Program, he is passionate about exhibition making and the important role museums play in contemporary society, as spaces of reconciliation, social cohesion and community empowerment.
He is currently undertaking a PhD at the Queensland University of Technology, proposing queer and feminist theory as a curatorial paradigm for the museum interpretation and display of fashion and clothing.
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