Margaux Shraiman is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Utrecht. She is a scholar of early modern visual culture whose work is grounded in ecocritical, transcultural, and postcolonial frameworks. Primarily focussed on Netherlandish works on paper and print culture within the Dutch colonial trade network, she interested in the ways in which foreign environments, flora, and peoples were observed, recorded, and transformed into transmissible images as they moved through overlapping circuits of scientific, commercial, and artistic exchange.

She is a part of the NWO VICI research project ‘The Dutch Global Age. Worldly images and images of the World in Netherlandish Art’. Her specific subproject looks at the ways in which the reproduction and dissemination of naturalist illustrations from the Cape colony reflect the broader practices of colonial botany within the global early modern Dutch colonial network. Previously she completed the J.C.M. Warnsinck fellowship at Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam, and worked as a curatorial research intern at both the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin and Het Scheepvaartmuseum.