Sharjah Art Foundation

March Meeting 2023: The Postcolonial Constellation: Art, Culture, Politics after 1960



9 March — 12 March, 2023

Abusaada, Nadi

Abusaada, Nadi

Speaker, Curator, Writer

Historian, architect and curator Nadi Abusaada studies the foundations of the architectural profession in West Asia, the history of national exhibitions in the modern Arab world, and the intersection between photographic practice and representations of the natural landscape in Palestine.

Gupta, Atreyee

Gupta, Atreyee

Art Historian, Curator

Atreyee Gupta is an art historian and curator. Her research examines global modernism, with a special focus on the aesthetic and intellectual flows that have cut across Asia, Africa, West Asia and Latin America from the twentieth century onwards.

Igloliorte, Heather

Igloliorte, Heather

Curator, Art Professional

Heather Igloliorte has devoted much of her scholarly and curatorial career to fostering and amplifying the voices of Inuit and other Indigenous artists, writers, curators and cultural workers.

Okeke-Agulu, Chika

Okeke-Agulu, Chika

Art Historian, Curator

Chika Okeke-Agulu is an artist, critic and art historian who specialises in Indigenous, modern and contemporary African and African Diaspora art history and theory.

Zaya, Octavio

Zaya, Octavio

Curator, Writer

An independent curator and art writer, Octavio Zaya is currently creating a Decolonial Archive for museum TEA (Tenerife Space for the Arts), Canary Islands.