https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0126-318X
Professor Kholeif is concerned with the concept of “dreamwork”—the work of safeguarding aesthetic culture. This, they argue is the necessary role of historians, curators, and academics today.
Their relationship to this field of discourse emerged via research into the concept of “difference”—the embodied experience of erasure and coterminously examining the influence of seeming “marginal error” in history. Kholeif analyses the social, aesthetic and political impulses surrounding “difference” through an interdisciplinary approach that draws from cultural studies and anthropology threading through the crosscurrents of visual culture.
Working as an historian, author, artist, curator and museum director, Professor Omar Kholeif has been recognised internationally for their influential work, exploring the diasporic imagination through their study of contemporary media. Arguing that pictures exert their own agency over society, Kholeif explores the systems that enable various cultural tools to generate new epistemic structures.
Working with artists and architects; historians and authors; technologists and entrepreneurs, Professor Kholeif has constituted multivalent acts of world building through books, biennials, broadcast, museum exhibitions, and through the (re)imagining of public collections and archives.
• Exhibition: The Dreamwork
• Platform: artPost21: www.artpost21.com.
• Peer-reviewed Publication Series: imagine/otherwise
• Publication: The Field of Emotional Abstraction
• Publication: Code-Switchers: The Art of Being Invisible
o Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
o Creative Capital| Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts
o Thoma Foundation for the Arts
o Sotheby’s Prize
o Situating Race, Ethnicity and Nation in Curatorial Field
o Narratives of the Diasporic Imagination
o Cross-cultural Dialogues in Exhibition Making
o Women in Global Exhibition Histories
o Curating Collections
o Evolving Models in Curatorial
Programme Leader - Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art)
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