Sara Raza is an award-winning curator and writer specializing in global art and visual cultures from a postcolonial and post-Soviet perspective with a specialism in Orientalism. She is the author of Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion (Black Dog Press, London, 2022). Raza has curated exhibitions and projects for international museums, biennials, and festivals, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Milan), Rubin Museum of Art (New York), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha, Qatar), the International Center of Photography (New York), the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Saskatchewan, Canada), Maraya Art Center (Sharjah), the Tashkent Biennale (Uzbekistan), the 55th Venice Biennale (Saudi Pavilion “Rhizoma”), and the 3rd Baku Public Art Festival (Azerbaijan), among others. Formerly, she was the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Africa at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Curator of Public Programs at Tate Modern in London. Raza is the West and Central Asia Desk Editor for ArtAsiaPacific magazine and has written for numerous artist monographs, books, and catalogues. Raza is the recipient of the 11th ArtTable New Leadership Award for Women in the Arts and was honored by Deutsche Bank and Apollo as one of 40 under 40 global art specialists (thinkers’ category). She is a Walter Hopps Curatorial Excellence Award Finalist and the Arts Council of England Emerging Curator’s Awardee (2004-05). Sara holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and History of Art and an MA in 20th-Century Art History and Theory, both from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and pursued studies towards her PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in New York City, where she runs her own independent global curatorial studio and teaches at the School of Visual Arts' Masters Curatorial Practice Program. She is the 2021-23 Red Burns Fellow at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and the 2024 visiting professor at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts' Masters Vilcek Curatorial Program. She also teaches at NYU’s Media, Culture, and Communication Department, specializing in decolonial thinking. Image: Asya Gorovits