Omar Kholeif

Dubbed a "Game Changer" by British GQ, a "Force of Culture" in the New York Times, an author of "compulsively readable stories" in the LA Review of Books, who also has the potential to send readers "...down a David Foster Wallace death spiral" as noted in the New York Journal of Books, Kholeif is an award-winning British author, artist, curator and cultural historian.

Fo two-decades, Dr. Kholeif has pushed the boundaries of oral, literary and visual culture with "breathtaking...compelling...path-breaking" exhibitions (FT, NYT, The National) at some of the world's leading museums of modern and contemporary art.

Kholeif is Professor in the School of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art, where they oversee the Graduate Programme in Curatorial Practice jointly with the University of Glasgow. Their latest book is hybrid telling of the life of artist, Huguette Caland in epistolary form, "Huguette Caland: imagine/otherwise" (Sternberg Press in Europe and Random House ROW, 2025).