Amira Gad is curator at the Serpentine Galleries in London, where she has curated exhibitions of works (and edited the accompanying publications) by Sondra Perry (2018), Torbjørn Rødland (2017), Arthur Jafa (2017), John Latham (2017), Zaha Hadid (2016), Helen Marten (2016), Simon Denny (2015), Jimmie Durham (2015), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2015)’s show that received the Sky Arts Award for visual arts, Julio Le Parc (2014) and Reiner Ruthenbeck (2014). As well as the public commission by Lee Ufan installed in Kensington Gardens in 2018.
Gad also worked on Serpentine’s 2016 Architecture Programme that included architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi (NLE), Yona Friedman, and Barkow Leibinger. Together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, she co-curated the group exhibition Hack Space that was presented in 2016 at the K11 Art Foundation’s pop-up space in Hong Kong and the chi K11 art museum in Shanghai.
Prior to this, Gad was Managing Curator, Exhibitions & Publications at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam where she worked from 2009 to 2014. Outside of the Serpentine Galleries, curated exhibitions include Subversive Forms of Social Sculpture with Abdulnasser Gharem and Heimo Zobernig at the Sharjah Art Museum, UAE (2018), Considering Dynamics & the Forms of Chaos with artists Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres at the Sharjah Art Museum (2016); Blue Times at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria (2014-2015).
She was also curator at Fogo Island Arts of the conference series that took place on Fogo and in Vienna at the MAK. She is a regular contributor to artists catalogues and has edited a number of books on contemporary art including the title Character is Fate: Mondrian’s Horoscopes that received the Dutch Best Book Design Award. Gad was also Commissioning Editor for Ibraaz (ibraaz.org), an online platform dedicated to visual culture in the Middle East and North Africa, and is a regular lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Golsmiths College of Art in London.