Christine Eyene is an art historian and curator. She is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art / Co-Director of Exhibition Research Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool. At LJMU, she teaches Exhibition Histories and curatorial practices from a Black British, African, and Diasporic perspective. From 2012 to 2022, she worked with Professor Lubaina Himid CBE RA on Making Histories Visible, an interdisciplinary visual arts research project.

Her 2025 exhibitions include Kuamen: Creep to the mic like a phantom, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London; What the Mountain Has Seen, ERL Gallery, Liverpool; The Plant the Stowed Away, Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, Liverpool; George Hallett: Home and Exile, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris. She was curator of Landskrona Foto Festival 2024’s Konsthall exhibition, and Seeds and Souls, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023-24).

Her latest essay ‘Lolodorf: Memories of a land’ is to be published in Ibou Coulibaly Diop, Franck Hermann Ekra and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (eds.), Deberlinization: Refabulating the World, A Theory of Praxis. Zurich: Diaphanes, 2026. Recently published essays include ‘Where an artist finds freedom’ in Alicia Knock (ed.), Paris Noir: Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950 – 2000. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2025.