Contributor

Amin Alsaden is a curator, scholar, and educator whose work focuses on transnational exchanges of ideas and expertise across cultural boundaries. His curatorial practice is committed to disseminating inclusive narratives that challenge existing canons and hegemonic epistemological and power structures. He is particularly interested in how artists and architects ponder collective experiences in the public realm, level political and institutional critique, and envision novel spatial responses to notions of displacement, exile, and belonging. Alsaden’s research explores modern and contemporary art and architecture in the Global South, with a focus on Arab and Muslim geographies. His research interests include questions of historiography and precarious archives; preservation of endangered heritage; modes of resistance and critical practice; impact of warfare and organized violence on the environment; Orientalism and representational tropes; and, monumentality and public space. Alsaden holds graduate degrees from Harvard and Princeton, and has published and lectured widely.