Dr Sara Raza is an award-winning contemporary art curator and writer currently based in New York. She is the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Sara is the author of Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion, published by Black Dog Press, London in 2022. She holds a PhD in Decolonial Exhibition Making, Collecting Practices, and Public Programmes from Middlesex University, London and previously pursued a practice-based MPhil-PhD at the Royal College of Art, London, with a focus on Post-Soviet Orientalism. She also earned an MA in 20th Century Art History, Theory, and Philosophy from Goldsmiths, University of London, and holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and History of Art, also from Goldsmiths. Sara is a Core Critic and faculty member in the MFA Painting and Printmaking programme at the Yale School of Art. She has also taught at New York University in the Departments of Media, Culture, and Communication; the Institute of Fine Arts (Vilcek Curatorial Programme); and the Interactive Telecommunications Programme (ITP), where she was a Red Burns Fellow.

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