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Omar Kholeif is a writer, curator and editor. He is currently Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery (London), Senior Visiting Curator at Cornerhouse and HOME (Manchester) as well as Senior Editor of Ibraaz Publishing. Previously he headed up Art and Technology at SPACE (London) where he was founding director of The White Building, London's centre for art and technology, and was Curator at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Liverpool). Kholeif has also been Artistic Director at the Arab British Centre, London and was founding director of the UK's Arab Film Festival. In 2015, he curates the Pavilion for Cyprus at the 56th Venice Biennale; Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa and Mediterranean, and the Abraaj Group Art Prize at Art Dubai, UAE. In 2014, he released five books including, You Are Here: Art After the Internet, Cornerhouse publications highest grossing title of 2014. Forthcoming publications still to be released, The Moving Image (MIT Press, 2015), The Goodness Regime and Spam! Spam! What a Wonderful Scam! (Both Sternberg Press, 2015). |
