Daen Palma Huse
Daen is a curator, researcher and brand consultant. He has worked in the fields of art, fashion, performance and international cultural relations across institutions, including The National Portrait Gallery, The Wallace Collection, Leighton House Museum and Leica Gallery Los Angeles. Daen has carried out a research project funded by the ARTES Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group and CEEH Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica. He has completed an MA in Art History at University College London (UCL) and an MA in Art & Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently an MPhil/PhD candidate at the History of Art department, UCL. Daen’s research interests include Latin American art history, Victorian graphic artist Edward Linley Sambourne and his contemporaries, as well as 19th century photography.
Daen is the Editor and Co-Founder of The Protagonist Magazine, a publication about art, culture and performance. For the publication, Daen also acts as the Creative Director, overseeing the publication process from conceptualisation to final product. Daen has also produced editorials for a range of publications including Glamour Italy, The Guardian, L’Officiel and Madame Figaro and continues to design marketing strategies for brands, artists and musicians.
Having guest lectured and delivered workshops at Ravensbourne, Plymouth College of Art, Falmouth University and Coventry University (London campus) about curating, writing and publishing, Daen was a Lecturer at Solent University for several years. At the University College London (UCL) History of Art Department he has organised a panel event with the title “Found in Translation: Navigating Language in Research & Communication” with funding by the Art History Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Board. He also presented at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture PhD Conference & Exhibition 2020.
Daen was awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and has received the International Relations Prize 2011 for best BA dissertation within the department of Political Science at The University of Birmingham in which he assessed higher education of political science through a critical decolonial lens.