Shama Khanna
Info
-
-
Area
Role
Tutor
- Curating Contemporary Art
- [email protected]
-
-
Shama Khanna is an independent curator committed to creating opportunities for marginalised artists and publics to practice and engage with the arts, as much as possible, on their own terms. Khanna’s curatorial specialisms include artists’ moving image and networked culture, interests which are brought together on her long-running commissioning and sharing platform, flatness.eu.
-
Biography
-
Shama Khanna is an independent curator, writer and educator from London via Nairobi where she was born. With over ten years’ experience working in the UK and internationally, Khanna has curated numerous artists’ projects and commissions, both independently and as part of collaborations with organisations including: The Showroom, Goldsmiths University of London, Jerwood Visual Arts, P.S. 1 and PERFORMA in NYC and Documenta14 in Athens.
Show moreCurrently Khanna curates Flatness and the artists’ moving image series, Non-Linear. Both programmes learn from artists’ practices in order to address the structural and the material conditions of working immaterially. Screening and discussion events have taken place at international venues including: Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Chisenhale Gallery and Auto Italia in London; Palais de Tokyo in Paris; Moderna Museet, Malmö; LIMA, Amsterdam; Western Front, Vancouver; Microscope, New York; Rupert, Vilnius; warehouse, Berlin; LUX Scotland and CCA, Glasgow.
Recent texts they have written have been published by Afterall, NANG, Art Monthly, The White Review, LUX and Aorist, co-edited with seven other writers.