Dr. Omar Kholeif (UK/EG/SU) aka Dr. O is an author of prose and poetry, a historian of the academy and its peripheries, and a curator of vanquished and/or suppressed archives. Dr. Kholeif has worked as a broadcaster, filmmaker, editor, publisher, and a museum director in South Africa, Great Britain, the United States, the GCC and Northern Africa. Over the last two decades, Dr. Kholeif’s work has concentrated on the nature of networked image culture and its relationship to intersectional questions in the field and study of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality. Dr. Kholeif has curated 65+ exhibitions of visual art across five continents, and has authored, co-authored, or edited over 40 books, which have been translated into 12 languages. Dr. Kholeif was co-curator of Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, is the founding director of www.artpost21.com and is Curator of FORUM at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Dr. Kholeif currently serves as Director of Collections and Senior Curator, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE. Kholeif’s forthcoming monograph, Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs is published by Phaidon in 2023.
