Hammad Nasar
Hammad Nasar is a curator, writer and Director of Programmes & Content at Ibraaz, London. He was Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre (part of Yale University), where he co-led the ‘London, Asia’ project, and Principal Research Fellow at UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute. Previously, he was: Executive Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation, London; Head of Research & Programmes at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; and co-founder of Green Cardamom, London. Known for collaborative, exhibition-led inquiry, Nasar has curated or co-curated numerous international exhibitions, including: Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now and Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends (both 2023–24); British Art Show 9 (2021–22); Turner Prize (2021); Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play – the UAE’s national pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); and Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space (2005–14). He is a Board Member of the Henry Moore Foundation; a strategic advisor to the Delfina Foundation; a member of the Acquisition Committee for the Arts Council Collection (UK); and a Working Council Member of Asia Forum. He was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in 2023.