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Amira Gad is an art curator, writer, and editor in modern and contemporary art and architecture. Gad is currently artistic director at Lehmann Maupin, an art gallery based in New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.

Career
From 2009 to 2014, Gad was Managing Curator and Publications at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. In her time at the institution, she curated exhibitions and public programmes including the show ‘Short Big Drama’ with artist Angela Bulloch (co-curated with Nicolaus Schafhausen in 2012), ‘The Temptation of AA Bronson’ (2014) that received the AICA Best Exhibition of the Year Award in The Netherlands and the 2-day conference I AM FOR AN ART CRITICISM THAT… held at Witte de With Center for Center for Contemporary Art and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam curated with the-then artistic director Defne Ayas.

Gad worked as a curator at the Serpentine Galleries in London from 2014 to 2019 where her exhibitions were widely covered by the international press. She curated exhibitions of work (and edited the accompanying publications) by artists Arthur Jafa (2017-on tour) and Jimmie Durham (2015) both of whom were awarded the prestigious Golden Lion Award at the 2019 Venice Biennale of Art. And her show of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s work ‘Verses After Dusk’ awarded the artist the Sky Arts Award for Visual Arts in 2016.

Her exhibition of Arthur Jafa’s work ‘A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions’ (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist) traveled from London’s Serpentine Galleries to the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin where it won the AICA Award for Best Exhibition of 2018 in Germany, continued its tour to Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague  and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2019). The accompanying catalogue (co-edited with Joseph Constable) won the Richard Schlagman Art Book Award in 2019.

Sondra Perry’s 2018 Serpentine Galleries exhibition ‘Typhoon Coming On’ traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami while the Torbjørn Rødland exhibition ‘The Touch That Made You’ she curated in 2017 toured to the Fondazione Prada Osservatorio in Milan.

In 2016, the exhibition of Zaha Hadid’s early paintings and drawings first presented at the Serpentine Galleries was then presented at ArtisTree in Hong Kong and Simon Denny’s 2015 show for the Serpentine was restaged as a group exhibition, co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, and presented at the K11 Art Foundation in both Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Alongside working on exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, Gad was the curator working on the public commission by Lee Ufan installed in Kensington Gardens in 2018[16], as well as part of the selection committee that appointed Japanese architect Junya Ishigami for the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion and the curator on Serpentine 2016 architecture programme that presented Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi (NLE), Yona Friedman, and Barkow Leibinger.

She served on the selection committee for Serpentine Galleries’s Augmented Architecture programme that launched in 2019 and nominated a project by artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen which was realised in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and Sir David Adjaye.

In September 2019, Gad was appointed as Artistic Director at Lehmann Maupin to advance Lehmann Maupin’s artistic programme and expand the gallery’s international network.

Awards And Honours

 * Nomination for Women Leading the Art World, UK (The Sunday Times)
 * Winner of the 2019 Richard Schlagman Art Book Award in the category Outstanding Artist’s Book
 * Winner of the AICA Award 2018: Exhibition of the Year, Germany
 * Winner of the Sky Arts Awards 2016: Visual Arts Category, UK
 * Winner of the Best Dutch Book Design 2015, The Netherlands
 * Winner of the AICA Awards 2014: Exhibition of the Year, The Netherlands