Noor Ahmed is an art curator, artist, and writer. Her research-based curatorial practice focuses on creating platforms for interdisciplinary connections and exchange and merging the public/private areas of art-making and consumption. Her investigations are rooted in the cultural heritage and political pulse of the communities surrounding her. She was part of the team curating her country’s national Pavilion, the Pakistan Pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020, which received the Silver Award in March 2022 from 192 participating countries. During lockdown in 2020, she founded ‘Open Studios at 73’, a residency program that provided opportunities, studio space and exhibiting space to artists at a time of total lockdown, while critiquing power structures and notions of the white cube. She was Assistant Curator for Karachi Biennale 2019, Pakistan’s largest contemporary art event. Her essays on Pakistan and contemporary art have been published in international and local publications. She currently heads The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, a non-profit dedicated to historical and cultural preservation that builds, maintains, and disseminates from one of the largest and most diverse digital archives in Pakistan and its history.
