Omar Kholeif

Omar Kholeif is an artist, curator, writer and editor. His work focuses on issues of narrative and geography in art. Kholeif is the former Manilow Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.[1] Prior to that, he was Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, Senior Editor at Ibraaz Publishing and Senior Curator at Cornerhouse in Manchester. [2] Previously, he was Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, Senior Editor at Ibraaz Publishing and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME in Manchester.[3]

Kholeif is Senior Visiting Curator at HOME Manchester [4]; Co-Curator of the 14th Sharjah Biennial [5]; Curator of the V-A-C Foundation Venice headquarters, Palazzo delle Zattere, during the 58th Venice Biennale [6]; a curator for Abu Dhabi Art, and is a guest curator and advisor for numerous international festivals and biennials.[7]

Career

Kholeif was born in Cairo, Egypt and now lives in Chicago, United States. Previously he was Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery,[3] Senior Visiting Curator at Cornerhouse and HOME in Manchester, Curator at Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), London and Senior Editor at Ibraaz Publishing.[8] His work focuses on issues of narrative and geography in contemporary accelerated culture. He has curated major exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Abraaj Group Art Prize at Art Dubai and Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean at the Armory Show, New York. [9] In 2015 he took up the post of Manilow senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Kholeif has written for The Guardian,[10] Frieze,[11] Wired[12] and HuffPost.[10] His books include: Vision, Memory and Media (2010), Jeddah Childhood circa 1994 (2014) and You Are Here: Art After the Internet (2014) which was reviewed in Artforum by Douglas Coupland as the "smartest book on this topic".[13]

In 2014, Kholeif was voted one of the 50 most powerful people in the Middle Eastern art world by Canvas Magazine, one of the 100 most powerful people in the art world by ArtLyst[14] and one of eight curators to watch by Artsy.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Friends: Omar Kholeif".
  2. ↑
  3. 1 2 "Press release".
  4. ↑ "Omar Kholeif".
  5. ↑ "Omar Kholeif".
  6. ↑ "SIDEBAR: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Omar Kholeif, and W.J.T. Mitchell". artandeducation.net.
  7. ↑ "Omar Kholeif". omarkholeif.com.
  8. ↑ "Who we are: Staff". MCA Chicago. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  9. ↑ "THE ARMORY SHOW, FOCUS: MENAM". edgeofarabia.com.
  10. 1 2 "Reflections on the 2014 Whitney Biennial". 27 May 2014.
  11. ↑
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ "Douglas Coupland". artforum.com.
  14. ↑ "Artlyst Power 100: 2014 Alternative Art Power List revealed - Artlyst". Artlyst. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  15. ↑ Thackara, Tess (2014-12-20). "Curators To Watch in 2015, as Chosen by Art-World Insiders". Artsy. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
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