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Amira Gad is an art curator, writer, and editor in modern and contemporary art and architecture. Gad is currently artistic director at Lehmann Maupin, an art gallery based in New York City, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
Career
From 2009 to 2014, Gad was Managing Curator and Publications at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. In her time at the institution, she curated exhibitions and public programmes including the show ‘Short Big Drama’ with artist Angela Bulloch (co-curated with Nicolaus Schafhausen in 2012), ‘The Temptation of AA Bronson’ (2014) that received the AICA Best Exhibition of the Year Award in The Netherlands and the 2-day conference I AM FOR AN ART CRITICISM THAT… held at Witte de With Center for Center for Contemporary Art and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam curated with the-then artistic director Defne Ayas.
Gad worked as a curator at the Serpentine Galleries in London from 2014 to 2019 where her exhibitions were widely covered by the international press. She curated exhibitions of work (and edited the accompanying publications) by artists Arthur Jafa (2017-on tour) and Jimmie Durham (2015) both of whom were awarded the prestigious Golden Lion Award at the 2019 Venice Biennale of Art. And her show of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work ‘Verses After Dusk’ awarded the artist the Sky Arts Award for Visual Arts in 2016.
Her exhibition of Arthur Jafa's work ‘A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions’ (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist) traveled from London's Serpentine Galleries to the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin where it won the AICA Award for Best Exhibition of 2018 in Germany, continued its tour to Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2019). The accompanying catalogue (co-edited with Joseph Constable) won the Richard Schlagman Art Book Award in 2019.
Sondra Perry's 2018 Serpentine Galleries exhibition ‘Typhoon Coming On’ traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami while the Torbjørn Rødland exhibition ‘The Touch That Made You’ she curated in 2017 toured to the Fondazione Prada Osservatorio in Milan.
In 2016, the exhibition of Zaha Hadid's early paintings and drawings first presented at the Serpentine Galleries was then presented at ArtisTree in Hong Kong and Simon Denny's 2015 show for the Serpentine was restaged as a group exhibition, co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, and presented at the K11 Art Foundation in both Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Alongside working on exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, Gad was the curator working on the public commission by Lee Ufan installed in Kensington Gardens in 2018[16], as well as part of the selection committee that appointed Japanese architect Junya Ishigami for the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion and the curator on Serpentine 2016 architecture programme that presented Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi (NLE), Yona Friedman, and Barkow Leibinger.
She served on the selection committee for Serpentine Galleries's Augmented Architecture programme that launched in 2019 and nominated a project by artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen which was realised in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and Sir David Adjaye.
In September 2019, Gad was appointed as Artistic Director at Lehmann Maupin to advance Lehmann Maupin's artistic programme and expand the gallery's international network.
Selected exhibitions
- Albert Oehlen (2019)
- Hito Steyerl: Power Plants (2019) (curated with Ben Vickers, Kay Watson, and Amal Khalaf)
- Sondra Perry: Typhoon Coming On (2018)
- Abdulnasser Gharem and Heimo Zobernig: Subversive Forms of Social Sculpture (2018)
- Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You (2017)
- Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Things (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist), 2017-ongoing
- John Latham: A World View, 2017
- Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist), 2016
- Helen Marten: Drunk Brown House, 2016
- Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres: Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos, 2016
- HACK SPACE (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist), 2016
- Simon Denny: Products for Organising, 2015
- Jimmie Durham: Various Items and Complaints, 2015
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk, 2015
- Julio Le Parc: Drawings and Games, 2014
- Reiner Ruthenbeck, 2014
- Blue Times (co-curated with Nicolaus Schafhausen), 2014
- The Temptation of AA Bronson (curated by AA Bronson, organised together with Defne Ayas), 2013
- Angela Bulloch: Short Big Drama (co-curated with Nicolaus Schafhausen), 2012
Other activities
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In 2018, Gad was nominated to a panel of 10 women that selected artists shown at Frieze Art Fair London's special section ‘Social Work’ dedicated to women whose work emerged in response to the global social and political schisms of the 1980s and ’90s. That same year, she was also nominated as a woman leader of the art world by The Sunday Times. Gad also sat on judging panels and committees for the Prix de Rome (2019), Aesthetica Art Prize (2018), First Book Award (2018), Neo:Art Prize (2015).
She is a regular contributor to artists’ catalogues, has edited a number of books on contemporary art, and was a commissioning editor for Ibraaz (ibraaz.org), an online platform dedicated to visual culture in the Middle East and North Africa.Gad is a regular guest lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London and other art schools in addition to giving talks, leading masterclasses and workshops such as Frieze Academy's day-long event ‘How to Curate an Exhibition’.
Awards and honours
- Nomination for Women Leading the Art World, UK (The Sunday Times)
- Winner of the 2019 Richard Schlagman Art Book Award in the category Outstanding Artist's Book
- Winner of the AICA Award 2018: Exhibition of the Year, Germany
- Winner of the Sky Arts Awards 2016: Visual Arts Category, UK
- Winner of the Best Dutch Book Design 2015, The Netherlands
- Winner of the AICA Awards 2014: Exhibition of the Year, The Netherlands