Tarini Malik

Tarini Malik (b.1988, New Delhi, India) is the Shane Ackroyd Associate Curator of the British Pavilion at the 2024 edition of Venice Biennale working with artist John Akomfrah. She is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Royal Academy of Arts. Previously, she was a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery and responsible for the planning of artistic programmes, and at the Hayward Gallery where she organised a series of landmark group exhibitions, as well as the first solo presentations in the UK of several international artists whose practices deal with themes of post-colonialism and identity politics. From 2013-2017, Malik was Head of Exhibitions for artist Isaac Julien and Research Curator with Mark Nash on several major touring international exhibitions. In 2015, she was Research Curator for the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor, entitled “All The Worlds Futures”. Malik has also held curatorial posts at Fiorucci Art Trust, Frieze Projects and Serpentine Galleries. She has published her writing in various magazines and journals and lectured widely on cultural studies and curating.