Amin Alsaden

Amin Alsaden is a curator, educator, and scholar of art and architecture, whose work focuses on transnational solidarities and exchanges across cultural boundaries. With a commitment to advancing social justice through the arts, Alsaden’s curatorial practice contributes to the dissemination of more diverse, inclusive, and global narratives, by decentering and expanding existing canons, and challenging hegemonic knowledge and power structures. He is particularly interested in how artists and architects interrogate collective agency in the public realm and level institutional critique, while envisioning novel visual and spatial responses to the experiences of alienation and belonging. Alsaden’s research explores the history and theory of modern and contemporary art and architecture globally, with specific expertise in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Having taught at several institutions at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, Alsaden regularly serves as an invited lecturer and critic at art, curatorial, and design programs. He has published and presented his research internationally, and holds a PhD and an MA from Harvard University, an MArch from Princeton University, and a BArch from the American University of Sharjah.

Education

• Master of Arts - MA Harvard University
• Master of Architecture - MArch Princeton University
• Bachelor of Architecture - BArch American University of Sharjah

Companies

• Curator and Educator Digital Arts Resource Centre (2021)
• Sessional Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts University of Waterloo (2021)
• Sessional Lecturer, Daniels Faculty University of Toronto (2019)
• Independent Curator Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture (2011)
• Writer, Researcher, Historian Art and Architecture (2011)
• Nancy McCain & Bill Morneau Curatorial Fellow The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (2019 — 2021)
• Launch Director Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2018 — 2018)
• Doctoral Fellow, Art and Architectural History German Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) (2018 — 2018)
• Dissertation Fellow, Art and Architectural History Darat al Funun (2017 — 2017)