Sabih Ahmed

Sabih Ahmed is a curator, culture theorist and educator living in the UAE. His work focuses on modern and contemporary art mapped through global itineraries and inter-disciplinary formations. Sabih serves as a Projects Advisor at the Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai. He was the Director at Ishara from 2020-2025, where he led the strategic direction and expansion of the foundation. His recent curations include Shilpa Gupta: Lines of Flight (2025), Notations on Time co-curated with Sandhini Poddar (2023), and Navjot Altaf: Pattern (2022) at Ishara. Sabih is the co-author of Mass Traffic with Lantian Xie (Kunsthalle Bern and Mousse, 2023). His recent essays and interviews have appeared in publications that include Matter Mattering Matters: A Scienticity Reader (Mousse, 2025), Speech Acts (Tulika Books, 2025), Unframed: Discovering Image Practices in south Asia, (Harper Collins, 2022) and has contributed to publication titles that include the Whitworth, Arts Cabinet, Ocula, Oncurating, The Arts Newspaper and The Sarai Reader. He was a Visiting Faculty at the Ambedkar University Delhi from 2014 – 2019 and has lectured in various universities in Asia, Europe and the US.

Vikram Divecha

Vikram Divecha is a Beirut-born artist who grew up in Mumbai and is based in the UAE. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and was a participant of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study program. Divecha’s practice focuses on ‘found processes’ – a term he uses to describe the urban operations he investigates. Exhibitions include the 2024 Diriyah Art Biennial, 57th Venice Biennale, 13th Sharjah Biennial, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Gayatri Gopinath

Gayatri Gopinath is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She works at the intersection of transnational feminist and queer studies, postcolonial studies, and diaspora studies, and is the author of two monographs: Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005), and Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2018). She has published numerous essays on gender, sexuality, and queer diasporic visual art and culture in anthologies and journals such as Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, GLQ, and Social Text, as well as in art publications such as PIX: A Journal of Contemporary Indian Photography, Tribe: Photography and New Media from the Arab World, and ArtReview Asia. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective at NYU, an initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation, and the recipient of the 2023 NYU Dorothy Irene Height Faculty Award.

Lucas Morin

Lucas Morin is a Senior Curator at Art Jameel. His work engages with animals, infrastructure, cities and the politics of emotions. He was previously curator at Bétonsalon — Centre for Art and Research (Paris) and worked at the Sursock Museum (Beirut). Recent exhibitions include Three Tired Tigers _(Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, 2024), _Vikram Divecha: Short Circuits (Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, 2024) and At the Edge of Land (Hayy Arts, Jeddah, 2023). He graduated from Sciences Po Paris and Paris IV – Sorbonne in Philosophy and Social Sciences. He loves books, bikes and cats.

Dawn Ross

Dawn Ross is a curator with experience across independent art spaces, museums, community arts organisations and festivals. For the past ten years, she has been based in the UAE, serving as Head of Collections and Senior Curator at Art Jameel. In this capacity she led on the development, care and growth of the Art Jameel Collection and curated exhibitions at both the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai and Hayy Jameel in Jeddah. During this time, she launched key programming initiatives such as Artist’s Garden, a biannual research commission focused on ecological and climate-related projects, and the Collection Care Fellowship, a long-term research initiative addressing the challenges and opportunities of managing institutional art collections in West and South Asia. Before her time at Art Jameel, she managed art and educational projects at Art Dubai. This included Campus Art Dubai, artist commissions and Artists in Residence (A.i.R Dubai), all part of the fair’s non-commercial focus. Prior to working in the UAE, she was based in Scotland, where she developed exhibitions, residencies and artist commissions at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, and managed the Scottish Contemporary Art Network, providing opportunities that championed and supported the contemporary art sector in Scotland. Earlier in her career, she was based in Brisbane, Australia, where she focused on curating exhibitions and managing museum collections.