About
Dr. Alexandra Regan Toland is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at OsloMet University. Previously she was Associate Professor of Arts and Research at the Bauhaus University Weimar, and director of the Ph.D. Program in Art and Design. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in German cultural studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Arts from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), and an engineering degree and doctorate degree in landscape planning from the Technische Universität Berlin. In her artistic research, Alex explores social and cultural dimensions of urban soils, vegetation, air, and multispecies relationships. Her works have been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Museum Schloß Moyland, German Hygiene Museum Dresden, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, and Art Laboratory Berlin. Alex has published widely on artistic (research) practices as they relate to soil protection, air pollution, and the Anthropocene and has co-chaired the Commission on the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Soils of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) since 2022.
