Dr Sara Raza, Art Historian, Curator and Writer

Dr Sara Raza is an award-winning global art curator, art historian, and writer. She is the author of Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion (Black Dog Press, 2022) and the founder of Punk Orientalism Studio, a global curatorial platform specializing in visual cultures from postcolonial and post-Soviet perspectives, and a Core Critic and Faculty member at the Yale School of Art. She is currently the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Center for Contemporary Art Tashkent (CCA).

Dr Raza is an award-winning curator, writer, and educator. She is the recipient of the 11th ArtTable New Leadership Award for Women in the Arts and the Red Burns Fellowship for distinguished creative practitioners and researchers, and was recognized by Deutsche Bank and Apollo Magazine as one of the world’s “40 Under 40” leading art thinkers. Over the past two decades, she has curated exhibitions and projects for major international biennials, festivals, and museums, and previously held curatorial positions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Tate Modern, London.

Through her global curatorial practice, Punk Orientalism Studio, which is based in New York she works across Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and North America.  The studio’s activities include curatorial knowledge, publishing, lecturing, creating curricula, and contemporary collecting practices. Recent Studio projects include collaborations with Qatar Museums (Mathaf and Lusail),  Doha, International Center of Photography, New York, Tufts University Art Galleries Sommerville, MA, Rubin Museum, New York, the Arts and Culture Development Foundation, Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia among others.